Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
ALAN PERLISIn man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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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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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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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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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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