You think you KNOW when you learn.
ALAN PERLISSimplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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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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Dealing with failure is easy.
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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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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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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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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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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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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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