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Alan Perlis Inspirational Quotes (56)

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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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You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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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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One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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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.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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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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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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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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