You think you KNOW when you learn.
ALAN PERLISOptimization hinders evolution.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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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 picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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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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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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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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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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