FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
ALAN PERLISIn computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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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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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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In English every word can be verbed.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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