Every reader should ask himself periodically.
ALAN PERLISI hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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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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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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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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Any noun can be verbed.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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