Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
ALAN PERLISIs it possible that software is not like anything else.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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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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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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