In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
ALAN PERLISDon’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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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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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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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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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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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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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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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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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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