That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with 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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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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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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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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