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.
ALAN PERLISA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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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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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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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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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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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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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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