In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
ALAN PERLISYou think you KNOW when you learn.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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