I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
ALAN PERLISIs it possible that software is not like anything else.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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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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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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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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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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