One can only display complex information in the mind.
ALAN PERLISA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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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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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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