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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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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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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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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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