Cost Quote by Alan Perlis Download Open image “LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.” — Alan Perlis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cost Programming
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them… — Guy Steele Copy Share Image
Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
That's why the smartest companies use Common Lisp, but lie about it so all their competitors think Lisp is slow and C++ is fast. — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
In these days, people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now a day people know the price of everything but the value of nothing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.” — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
Lisp was far more powerful and flexible than any other language of its day; in fact, it is still a better design than most… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension. — Verity Stob Copy Share Image
These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot… — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return. — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film. — Jessica Yu Copy Share Image
[Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I think that… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I… — Robbin Crosby Copy Share Image
I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I believe that government is too large, costs too much, spends too much, and has too much regulatory power in our lives. — Tim Walberg Copy Share Image
One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
When the government pays, health care's lack of affordability becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In health care, as in other things, government is the high-cost… — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
“In your goals to go the extra mile, prepare to pay an extra cost. Excellence is to be exceptional, surpassing, more competent and a… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image