Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
ALAN PERLISOne can only display complex information in the mind.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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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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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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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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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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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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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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