Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
ALAN PERLIS
You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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“Toward what end, toward what end?”- but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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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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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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