Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
ALAN PERLISA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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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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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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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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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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