Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
ALAN PERLISWe began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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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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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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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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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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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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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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