Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
ALAN PERLISHardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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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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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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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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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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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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