There is no such thing as a free variable.
ALAN PERLISA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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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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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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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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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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