We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
ALAN PERLISA good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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