Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
ALAN PERLISDon’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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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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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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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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Any noun can be verbed.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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