In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
ALAN PERLISWe are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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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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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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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.
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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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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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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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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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