One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
ALAN PERLISOne can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
ALAN PERLISFools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLISWhen 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.
ALAN PERLISSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
ALAN PERLISIn computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
ALAN PERLISWhat fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
ALAN PERLISIn English every word can be verbed.
ALAN PERLISHardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
ALAN PERLISIt is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
ALAN PERLISIn English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
ALAN PERLISBanality soothes our nerves.
ALAN PERLISI don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
ALAN PERLISThere are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
ALAN PERLISYou think you KNOW when you learn.
ALAN PERLISTraining will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
ALAN PERLISMotto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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