You think you KNOW when you learn.
ALAN PERLISBanality soothes our nerves.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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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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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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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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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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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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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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