Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
ALAN PERLISWork hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
ALAN PERLISTo understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
ALAN PERLISA good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
ALAN PERLISAre more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
ALAN PERLISC programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
ALAN PERLISAdapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
ALAN PERLISEverything should be built top-down, except the first time.
ALAN PERLISHardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
ALAN PERLISLike seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
ALAN PERLISOptimization hinders evolution.
ALAN PERLISA language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
ALAN PERLISI think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
ALAN PERLISA picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
ALAN PERLISIf you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
ALAN PERLISIn English every word can be verbed.
ALAN PERLISI hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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