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79: A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan Perlis
58: Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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57: It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan Perlis
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan Perlis
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan Perlis
The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
Alan Perlis
LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.
Alan Perlis
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan Perlis
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
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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
Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.
Alan Perlis
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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One man's constant is another man's variable.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
Alan Perlis
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.
Alan Perlis
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
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan Perlis
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?
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Alan Perlis
19: A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan Perlis
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