Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
ALAN PERLISIn computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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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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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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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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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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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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