If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
ALAN PERLISOne can only display complex information in the mind.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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“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.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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