Banality soothes our nerves.
ALAN PERLISWe are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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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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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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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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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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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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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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