Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
ALAN PERLIS“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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“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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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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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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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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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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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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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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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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