Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLISIn man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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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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