In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
ALAN PERLISOne man’s constant is another man’s variable.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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 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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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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