A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
ALAN PERLISHardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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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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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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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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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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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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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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