Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
ALAN PERLISOften it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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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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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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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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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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