FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
ALAN PERLISI hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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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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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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