Optimization hinders evolution.
ALAN PERLISLike seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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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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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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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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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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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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