When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
ALAN PERLISI hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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When 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.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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