Dealing with failure is easy.
ALAN PERLISWhat fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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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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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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