+ Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alan Perlis, Research, 0 - Alan Perlis Computer Scientist · USA
+ A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alan Perlis, Cost, Programmers, 0 - Alan Perlis Computer Scientist · USA
+ A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alan Perlis, Knowing, Learn, 0 - Alan Perlis Computer Scientist · USA
+ Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alan Perlis, Ideas, Responsible, 0 - Alan Perlis Computer Scientist · USA
+ In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alan Perlis, Bird, Technology, Worms, 0 - Alan Perlis Computer Scientist · USA
+ In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alan Perlis, Language, Programming, 0 - Alan Perlis Computer Scientist · USA
+ It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alan Perlis, Change, Computer, Vices, 0 - Alan Perlis Computer Scientist · USA
+ To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alan Perlis, Learn, Machines, Program, 0 - Alan Perlis Computer Scientist · USA
I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure. - Jean Kerr Playwright · USA
We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users. - Jeff Atwood Entrepreneur
In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering. - William James Philosopher and psychologist · USA
As far as I have seen, at school…they aimed at blotting out one’s individuality. Explain - Franz Kafka Writer · Czechia
Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time. - Fred Brooks Software Engineer · USA
It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example. - Fred Hoyle Astronomer · England
