C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
ALAN PERLISIt goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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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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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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