American - Scientist | April 1, 1922 - February 7, 1990
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan Perlis
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. 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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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.
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One man's constant is another man's variable.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
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