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Alan Perlis
Age: 67 †
Born: 1922
Born: April 1
Died: 1990
Died: February 7
Computer Scientist
Mathematician
University Teacher
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Alan Jay Perlis
Alan J. Perlis
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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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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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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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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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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One man's constant is another man's variable.
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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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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
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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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There are two ways to write error-free programs only the third one works.
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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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Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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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.
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If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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