A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
ALAN PERLISSimplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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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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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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