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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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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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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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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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