One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
ALAN PERLISIn computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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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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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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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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