Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
ALAN PERLISIn English every word can be verbed.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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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 programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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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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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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