I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
ALAN PERLISOptimization hinders evolution.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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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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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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