In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
ALAN PERLISWe are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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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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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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