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“A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.”

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Alan Perlis was a renowned computer scientist, born on April 1, 1922, and passed away on February 7, 1990. He made significant contributions to the field of computer science, particularly in programming languages and algorithm design. more

“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 fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.”

“It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?”

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Author:Alan Perlis

“Optimization hinders evolution.”

Learning Evolution Programming Hinder Optimization

Author:Alan Perlis

“To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.”

Learning Program Machines Programming

Author:Alan Perlis

“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 program.”

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Author:Alan Perlis

“Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.”

Learning Fancy Programming Algorithms

Author:Rob Pike

“Fancy optimizers have fancy bugs.”

Learning Fancy Programming Bugs

Author:Rosamund Pike

“Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.”

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Book:Plato's Theory of Knowledge: The Theaetetus and the Sophist

Source: Plato's Theory of Knowledge: The Theaetetus and the Sophist

“Gates has always understood Moore's Law better than anyone else in the industry. If you can make something run at all, get it out there -it may be slow and clunky, but hardware improvements will bail you out. If you wait until it's running perfectly on the hardware already in the field, it will be obsolete before it's released. This philosophy built Microsoft and is the main reason Microsoft won the war IBM declared back in the OS/2 days.”

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Author:Jerry Pournelle

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