I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
ALAN PERLISFools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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