If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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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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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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