Alan Perlis Quotes (30 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)
- A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
(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?
(Alan Perlis)
- We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
(Alan Perlis)
- 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)
- It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
(Alan Perlis)
- In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language - only we can't control when the 5 year period will begin.
(Alan Perlis)
- Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.
(Alan Perlis)
- Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
(Alan Perlis)
- Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
(Alan Perlis)
- The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
(Alan Perlis)
- Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
(Alan Perlis)
- One man's constant is another man's variable.
(Alan Perlis)
- If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
(Alan Perlis)
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