Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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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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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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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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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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