If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
ALAN PERLISC programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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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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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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