If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
ALAN PERLISOne man’s constant is another man’s variable.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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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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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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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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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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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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