To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
ALAN PERLISTo understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
ALAN PERLISYou think you KNOW when you learn.
ALAN PERLISBecause of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
ALAN PERLISIn the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
ALAN PERLISWork hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
ALAN PERLISA good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
ALAN PERLISA picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
ALAN PERLISEvery reader should ask himself periodically.
ALAN PERLISLearning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
ALAN PERLISHardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
ALAN PERLISWhen someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
ALAN PERLISC programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
ALAN PERLISWhen a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
ALAN PERLISOptimization hinders evolution.
ALAN PERLISDealing with failure is easy.
ALAN PERLISA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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