In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
ALAN PERLISDealing with failure is easy.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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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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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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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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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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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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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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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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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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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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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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