In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
ALAN PERLISIf your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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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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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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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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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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