A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
ALAN PERLISIt goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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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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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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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 a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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