We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
ALAN PERLISIn man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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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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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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