What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
ALAN PERLISA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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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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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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