Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
ALAN PERLISYou’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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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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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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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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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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