It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
ALAN PERLISOptimization hinders evolution.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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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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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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