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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
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant. - Alan Perlis Quotes
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. - Alan Perlis Quotes
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer. - Alan Perlis Quotes
Dont have good ideas if you arent willing to be responsible for them. - Alan Perlis Quotes
Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasnt. - Alan Perlis Quotes
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. - Alan Perlis Quotes
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it. - Alan Perlis Quotes
If a listener nods his head when youre explaining your program, wake him up. - Alan Perlis Quotes
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some. - Alan Perlis Quotes
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan. - Alan Perlis Quotes
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. - Alan Perlis Quotes
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word frustration . - Alan Perlis Quotes
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. - Alan Perlis Quotes
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble? - Alan Perlis Quotes
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical. - Alan Perlis Quotes
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa. - Alan Perlis Quotes
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one. - Alan Perlis Quotes
LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing. - Alan Perlis Quotes
One mans constant is another mans variable. - Alan Perlis Quotes
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. - Alan Perlis Quotes
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress. - Alan Perlis Quotes
The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland ; but thats because its the best book on anything for the layman. - Alan Perlis Quotes
The computing field is always in need of new cliches. - Alan Perlis Quotes
The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information. - Alan Perlis Quotes
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works. - Alan Perlis Quotes
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses. - Alan Perlis Quotes
You can measure a programmers perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN. - Alan Perlis Quotes
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