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by Den McHenry
丹·麦克亨利(Den McHenry)
Alan J. Perlis was the first recipient of the Turing Award. He’s possibly most remembered today for his , which are still brilliant and instructive more than three decades on.
艾伦·佩利斯(Alan J. Perlis)是图灵奖的第一位获得者。 今天，他的《 可能是最令人难忘的， 过去的三十多年中，它们仍然是出色而有启发性的。
One of my favorite quotes not from the Epigrams is about staying engaged in the actual business of learning, practicing, and — most importantly—enjoying computer programming.
我最喜欢的摘录自Epigrams的一句话是关于保持从事学习，练习和(最重要的是)享受计算机编程的实际业务的。
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don’t become missionaries. Don’t feel as if you’re Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don’t feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What’s in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.
我希望计算机科学领域永远不会失去乐趣。 最重要的是，我希望我们不要成为传教士。 不要觉得自己是圣经推销员。 世界上已经有太多这些了。 您将了解其他人对计算的了解。 不要觉得成功计算的关键就在您手中。 我认为和希望的是，您的手中有智慧：能够将机器视为一台机器，而不是第一次使用它时能看到更多。
— Alan Jay Perlis
—艾伦·杰伊·佩利斯(Alan Jay Perlis)
Here are a few of his epigrams to whet your appetite:
以下是他的一些句号，可以激发您的胃口：
7. It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
7.编写错误的程序要比理解正确的程序容易。
12. Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
12.递归是计算的根源，因为它需要时间来交换描述。
26. There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
26.我们总是希望在我们的程序中要说的是，所有已知语言都只能说得不好。
32. Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
32.程序员不应以其才智和逻辑来衡量，而应以案例分析的完整性来衡量。
54. Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
54.提防图灵焦油坑，在这里一切皆有可能，但没有任何有趣的事情容易发生。
58. Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
58.愚人无视复杂性。 实用主义者要忍受它。 有些人可以避免。 天才将其删除。
61. In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
61.在编程中，就像在其他所有方面一样，要重生。
93. When someone says “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done,” give him a lollipop.
93.当有人说“我想要一种只需要说出我想做的事情的编程语言”时，给他棒棒糖。
95. Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
95.如果您不愿意对它们负责，那就不要有好主意。
101. 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.
101.处理失败很容易：努力改进。 成功也很容易处理：您解决了错误的问题。 努力改进。
If you happen to use WordPress and want to read some more Perlis right in your dashboard, check out my plugin , adapted from Matt Mullenweg’s Hello Dolly plugin.
如果您碰巧使用WordPress，并且想在仪表板上直接阅读更多Perlis，请查看我的插件 ，该插件改编自Matt Mullenweg的Hello Dolly插件。
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