You think you KNOW when you learn.
ALAN PERLISI hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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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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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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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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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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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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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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