A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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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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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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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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Any noun can be verbed.
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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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