A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
ALAN PERLISThere are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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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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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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