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Letter "A" » Alan Perlis Quotes
«One man's constant is another man's variable.»
Author: Alan Perlis
«Every program has (at least) two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.»
Author: Alan Perlis
«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.»
Author: Alan Perlis
«Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.»
Author: Alan Perlis
«Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.»
Author: Alan Perlis
«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.»
Author: Alan Perlis
«If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.»
Author: Alan Perlis
«Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.»
Author: Alan Perlis
«Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.»
Author: Alan Perlis
«We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.»
Author: Alan Perlis
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