It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
ALAN PERLISDealing with failure is easy.
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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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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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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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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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 software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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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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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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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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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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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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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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