Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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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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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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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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Dealing with failure is easy.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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