Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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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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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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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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