Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
ALAN PERLISLearning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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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.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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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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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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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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Dealing with failure is easy.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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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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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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