Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
ALAN PERLISI think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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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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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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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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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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