A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
ALAN PERLISHardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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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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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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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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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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