Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
ALAN PERLIS
That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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