What did Alan Perlis mean by: To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program. - Alan Perlis Computer Scientist · USA Copy
+ If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alan Perlis, Listeners, Program, 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
+ If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alan Perlis, Procedures, 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
+ 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
+ In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alan Perlis, Errors, Programming, Reborn, 0 - Alan Perlis Computer Scientist · USA
+ C programmers never die. They are just cast into void. Feraz Zeid, June 8, 2023December 12, 2023, Alan Perlis, Casts, Programmers, Void, 0 - Alan Perlis Computer Scientist · USA
+ In English every word can be verbed. Feraz Zeid, September 11, 2023December 24, 2023, Alan Perlis, English Language, Language, 0 - Alan Perlis Computer Scientist · USA
To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure. - Jean Kerr Playwright · USA
If you can make it sound exciting with a joke drum machine, you know you’ve got something. - Jeff Beck
In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering. - William James Philosopher and psychologist · USA
Real style is not having a program – it’s how one behaves in a crisis. - Frank Auerbach Artist · Germany
