Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
ALAN PERLISOne can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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