Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
ALAN PERLISIn man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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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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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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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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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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