A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
ALAN PERLISI hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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Optimization hinders evolution.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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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 software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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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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