Banality soothes our nerves.
ALAN PERLISA picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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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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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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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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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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