Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
ALAN PERLISDon’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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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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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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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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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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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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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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