Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
ALAN PERLISOne can only display complex information in the mind.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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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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In English every word can be verbed.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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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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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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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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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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