Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
ALAN PERLISIs it possible that software is not like anything else.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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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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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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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 computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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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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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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