Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
ALAN PERLISIn English every word can be verbed.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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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, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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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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