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.
ALAN PERLISI think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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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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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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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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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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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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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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