I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
ALAN PERLISA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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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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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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