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Alan Perlis Quotes

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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer  (Alan Perlis Quotes) LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing  (Alan Perlis Quotes) Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.  (Alan Perlis Quotes) Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon  (Alan Perlis Quotes) A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures  (Alan Perlis Quotes) 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  (Alan Perlis Quotes) We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses  (Alan Perlis Quotes) One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely  (Alan Perlis Quotes) Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it  (Alan Perlis Quotes) Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble  (Alan Perlis Quotes) In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages  (Alan Perlis Quotes) 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.  (Alan Perlis Quotes) A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God  (Alan Perlis Quotes) When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.  (Alan Perlis Quotes) Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.  (Alan Perlis Quotes) It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one  (Alan Perlis Quotes) One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means  (Alan Perlis Quotes) One man's constant is another man's variable  (Alan Perlis Quotes) In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble  (Alan Perlis Quotes) In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter  (Alan Perlis Quotes) C programmers never die. They are just cast into void  (Alan Perlis Quotes) Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress  (Alan Perlis Quotes) There are two ways to write error - free programs; only the third one works  (Alan Perlis Quotes) In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm  (Alan Perlis Quotes) A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant  (Alan Perlis Quotes) Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it  (Alan Perlis Quotes) If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some  (Alan Perlis Quotes) It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa  (Alan Perlis Quotes) Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it  (Alan Perlis Quotes) There is no such thing as a free variable  (Alan Perlis Quotes)
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