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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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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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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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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