When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
ALAN PERLISOne man’s constant is another man’s variable.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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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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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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