Banality soothes our nerves.
ALAN PERLISComputer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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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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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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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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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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