Alan Perlis Quotes

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

Alan Perlis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 1, 1922 - February 7, 1990

Topics

YouMissedSomeProcedureParameters

Mobile is the perfect example of what is enabling economic growth in the technology sector.

Max Levchin

GrowthTechnologyPerfectEconomic

Good words cool more than cold water.

John Ray

GoodWaterWordsCoolColdMore

There would be nothing more thrilling than to win a championship.

Stan Kroenke

WinNothingMoreChampionshipWould

In 2005, while filming an independent movie with Elisabeth Shue in New York, I was put up in the most gob-smackingly beautiful, spacious, split-level loft apartment in SoHo for six weeks. It was so big that you could skate-board around the place, and since the job took place in the summer, my family got to join me there, too.

Steven Mackintosh

FamilyBeautifulJobNew YorkMe

At 11, 12, I thought I was clumsy, ugly, a mess, an unappealing person, but I did have the gift of the gab. I had the school record at Haberdashers for consecutive detentions for simply speaking out of turn.

Simon Schama

SchoolUglyGiftThoughtPersonOut

I knew Sinatra for 38 years. He was like my father. Frank Sinatra was my 'dad.' He treated me like his son. He gave me the best advice about singing, about this and that... He was a very sensitive man, very astute, one of the sharpest men that I ever met in my life.

Trini Lopez

LifeFatherSonBestMenMan

Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.

Tony Gilroy

BudgetAmbiguityYourRises

I came to realize that if I was going to succeed in the music industry, I was going to have to learn how to perform my songs myself.

Mike Posner

MusicMyselfSucceedLearnRealize

Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

Joyce Carol Oates

CharacterAestheticOutShapeEvolve

You can never entirely rest comfortably with Michael Black or Michael Paynes.

Joshua Malina

RestBlackYouNeverEntirely

I'm not the kind of guy to talk about angels: I'm a very pragmatic kind of guy.

Chris Isaak

KindAngelsTalkGuyPragmaticVery

My wish is to humanize history.

Svetlana Alexievich

HistoryWish

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