That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
ALAN PERLIS
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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 you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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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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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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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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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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