Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
ALAN PERLISThere is no such thing as a free variable.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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 computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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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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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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