A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
ALAN PERLISIf a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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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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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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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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Dealing with failure is easy.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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