If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
ALAN PERLISOptimization hinders evolution.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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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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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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