A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
ALAN PERLISOne can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Any noun can be verbed.
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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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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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