Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
ALAN PERLISDon’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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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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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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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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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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