Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. Alan Perlis American Scientist More Alan Perlis Quotes 1
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 American Scientist More Alan Perlis Quotes 0
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up. Alan Perlis American Scientist More Alan Perlis Quotes 0
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some. Alan Perlis American Scientist More Alan Perlis Quotes 0
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan. Alan Perlis American Scientist More Alan Perlis Quotes 0
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration". Alan Perlis American Scientist More Alan Perlis Quotes 0
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. Alan Perlis American Scientist More Alan Perlis Quotes 0
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. Alan Perlis American Scientist More Alan Perlis Quotes 0
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 American Scientist More Alan Perlis Quotes 0
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 American Scientist More Alan Perlis Quotes 0
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa. Alan Perlis American Scientist More Alan Perlis Quotes 0
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one. Alan Perlis American Scientist More Alan Perlis Quotes 0
LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing. Alan Perlis American Scientist More Alan Perlis Quotes 0
One man's constant is another man's variable. Alan Perlis American Scientist More Alan Perlis Quotes 0
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. Alan Perlis American Scientist More Alan Perlis Quotes 0
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress. Alan Perlis American Scientist More Alan Perlis Quotes 0
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. Alan Perlis American Scientist More Alan Perlis Quotes 0
The computing field is always in need of new cliches. Alan Perlis American Scientist More Alan Perlis Quotes 0
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works. Alan Perlis American Scientist More Alan Perlis Quotes 0
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses. Alan Perlis American Scientist More Alan Perlis Quotes 0
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN. Alan Perlis American Scientist More Alan Perlis Quotes 0
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 American Scientist More Alan Perlis Quotes 0
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant. Alan Perlis American Scientist More Alan Perlis Quotes 0
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. Alan Perlis American Scientist More Alan Perlis Quotes 0
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer. Alan Perlis American Scientist More Alan Perlis Quotes 0