Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
ALAN PERLISOptimization hinders evolution.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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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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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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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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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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