Dealing with failure is easy.
ALAN PERLISOptimization hinders evolution.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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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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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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