Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
ALAN PERLISOne can only display complex information in the mind.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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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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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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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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