Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
ALAN PERLISTraining will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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