Banality soothes our nerves.
ALAN PERLISIf your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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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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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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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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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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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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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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