Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
ALAN PERLISHardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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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“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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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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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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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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