Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
ALAN PERLISIs it possible that software is not like anything else.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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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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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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