One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
ALAN PERLISLike seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
-
-
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
ALAN PERLIS -
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
ALAN PERLIS -
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
ALAN PERLIS -
Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
ALAN PERLIS -
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
ALAN PERLIS -
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
ALAN PERLIS -
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
ALAN PERLIS -
Optimization hinders evolution.
ALAN PERLIS -
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
ALAN PERLIS -
Banality soothes our nerves.
ALAN PERLIS -
You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
ALAN PERLIS -
“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
ALAN PERLIS -
Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
ALAN PERLIS -
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLIS -
That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
ALAN PERLIS