A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
ALAN PERLISDon’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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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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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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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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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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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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