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Learning Quotes by Alan Perlis
- A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
- A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
- Any noun can be verbed.
- 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 of…
- 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…
- Optimization hinders evolution.
- To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
- 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…
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