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Inspirational Quotes by Alan Perlis
- Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
- Any noun can be verbed.
- A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with…
- There is no such thing as a free variable.
- Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
- If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
- C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
- One man's constant is another man's variable.
- In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
- In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
- In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
- In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
- LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.
- In English every word can be verbed.
- 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.
- If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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