Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
ALAN PERLISA picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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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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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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