艾倫·佩利
第一屆圖靈獎(jiǎng)得主
Editing is a rewording activity.
Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.
Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
The proof of a system's value is its existence.
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around.
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.