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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
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
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A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
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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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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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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