Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
ALAN PERLISEverything should be built top-down, except the first time.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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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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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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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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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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