One can only display complex information in the mind.
ALAN PERLISMotto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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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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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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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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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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