C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
ALAN PERLISBecause of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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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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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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