Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
ALAN PERLISI hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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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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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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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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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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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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