Alan Perlis Quotes
29 Alan Perlis quotes:
"A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God."
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Science Quotes
"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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American Scientist Quotes
Words Quotes
"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it."
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American Scientist Quotes
Complexity Quotes
"In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language - only we can't control when the 5 year period will begin."
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Control Quotes
"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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Education Quotes
American Scientist Quotes
"If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some."
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American Scientist Quotes
"It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa."
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American Scientist Quotes
"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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Technology Quotes
American Scientist Quotes
"The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information."
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American Scientist Quotes
"Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer."
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Science Quotes
American Scientist Quotes
"Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?"
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American Scientist Quotes
"One man's constant is another man's variable."
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American Scientist Quotes
"We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses."
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American Scientist Quotes
"You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN."
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American Scientist Quotes
"A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant."
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American Scientist Quotes
"Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress."
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American Scientist Quotes
"If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan."
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Computers Quotes
American Scientist Quotes
"Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon."
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Cancer Quotes
"Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them."
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American Scientist Quotes
Ideas Quotes
"There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works."
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American Scientist Quotes
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