In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
ALAN PERLISIn man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
ALAN PERLISOptimization hinders evolution.
ALAN PERLISFools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLISIn computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
ALAN PERLISDon’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
ALAN PERLISMotto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
ALAN PERLISAny noun can be verbed.
ALAN PERLISWe began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
ALAN PERLISIs it possible that software is not like anything else.
ALAN PERLISComputer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
ALAN PERLISTraining will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
ALAN PERLISA picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
ALAN PERLISA good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
ALAN PERLISWork hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
ALAN PERLISHardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
ALAN PERLISA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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