Famous Quotes / Alan Perlis
12 Quotations by Alan Perlis
- 1. If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
- 2. If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
- 3. In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language - only we can't control when the 5 year pe ...
- 4. In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word frustration.
- 5. Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the w ...
- 6. It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in makin ...
- 7. It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
- 8. Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.
- 9. The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
- 10. The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of proces ...
- 11. When someone says I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done, give him ...
- 12. You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing viability of For ...