A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
ALAN PERLISI hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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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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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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