If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
ALAN PERLISThat 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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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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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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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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