Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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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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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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