Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
ALAN PERLISIs it possible that software is not like anything else.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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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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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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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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