A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
ALAN PERLISLearning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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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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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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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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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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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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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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