We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
ALAN PERLISAdapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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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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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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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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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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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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