In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
ALAN PERLISBanality soothes our nerves.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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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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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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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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