Alan Perlis Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

11 Famous Quotes by Alan Perlis
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“It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self-critical?”
Society Quotes
“One man's constant is another man's variable.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Every program has (at least) two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.”
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“Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.”
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“We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
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