Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
ALAN PERLISBecause of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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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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Banality soothes our nerves.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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