Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
ALAN PERLISHardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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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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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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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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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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