In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
ALAN PERLISTo understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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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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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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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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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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