Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
ALAN PERLISI hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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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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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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