A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
ALAN PERLISI think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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