It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
ALAN PERLISIf your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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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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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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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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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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