A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
ALAN PERLISWhen a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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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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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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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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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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