There is no such thing as a free variable.
ALAN PERLISTo understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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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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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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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 year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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