Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
ALAN PERLISWe toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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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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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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