A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
ALAN PERLISIn software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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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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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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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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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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