Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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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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Dealing with failure is easy.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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