Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
ALAN PERLISDon’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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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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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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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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Optimization hinders evolution.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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