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Top 50 Alan Perlis Quotes (2024 Update)

Alan Perlis Quote: “C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “One man’s constant is another man’s variable.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “Optimization hinders evolution.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “There is no such thing as a free variable.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “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 Quote: “In English every word can be verbed.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “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 Quote: “In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “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 Quote: “It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “The computing field is always in need of new cliches.”
Alan Perlis Quote: “Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.”
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