I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
ALAN PERLISIt goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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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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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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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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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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