One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
ALAN PERLISDon’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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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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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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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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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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