If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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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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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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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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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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