Author of quotes: Alan J. Perlis

The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is a significant duplication of process. This is the perfect vehicle for hiding information.

To understand the program, you need to identify and with the machine, and with the program.

The refusal of the Assembly language was the Apple of discord in our garden of Eden: languages whose use leads to the waste of computer time, sinful. Drill today allows its programmers to abandon the Fig leaf.

Programmers should not be judged by their ingenuity and logic, and the completeness of the analysis of each situation.

Aphorisms skip the details and highlight the main thing: it is an excellent documentation of the highest level.

Years of work on artificial intelligence is enough to make you believe in God.

Each program had two purposes: she needs to do and what should not.

Program without errors, you can write two methods, but it works - third.

Machine rather detects the presence of disorder than order.

Aphorisms are scripts because they are executed during the reading.

What for one person is a constant, another variable.

Easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolons.