Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
ALAN PERLISAre more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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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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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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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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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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