Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
ALAN PERLISIn man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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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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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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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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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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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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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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