One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
ALAN PERLISBanality soothes our nerves.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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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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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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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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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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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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