You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
ALAN PERLISHardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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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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Dealing with failure is easy.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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