A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
ALAN PERLISDealing with failure is easy.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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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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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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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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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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