A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
ALAN PERLISOften it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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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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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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