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.
ALAN PERLISYou can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In English every word can be verbed.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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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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Banality soothes our nerves.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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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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