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ALAN PERLISThat it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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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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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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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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