Nests Quote by Alan Perlis Download Open image “We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.” — Alan Perlis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Nests Parentheses Pens Programming Toasts
Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
LISP has jokingly been described as "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer." I think that description is a great compliment because it… — Edsger Dijkstra 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
Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))). — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas--a whole grammar made of light, for words to hard to speak.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call undue attention… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated.… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
“In programming the World Wide Computer, we will be programming our lives.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
“Certain tight parentheses have been opened and allowed to spill their still active contents.” — Vladimir Nabokov 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
LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing. — 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 biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the… — Kim Alexis Copy Share Image
A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen… — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is a movie that I just find flawless. Jack Nicholson... I just saw 'The Shining' again the other… — Michael Biehn Copy Share Image
Nest is one vertical implementation of a set of smart products for the home. But we will support other peoples smart products for the… — Sundar Pichai Copy Share Image
With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
Oh, ants, my sisters, good old honeydew-seekers! From close up you are sticky and shiny and gristly; and your nymphs have parasitic red mites… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Virtually every advancement made by our species since civilization first peeked out of its nest of stone has been initiated by lone individuals, mavericks… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
About five years ago, the courses we run in the Field Trials were 52 percent timber. The hawks live in trees, and the quail… — Rick Carlisle Copy Share Image
You know, I think when people fly the nest a little too soon, as far as getting involved in movies, anything beyond the music… — Bubba Sparxxx Copy Share Image
