We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
ALAN PERLISIf a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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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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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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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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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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