20 Mega Quotes From Alan Perlis
20 Mega Quotes From Alan Perlise |
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
— Alan Perlis
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
— Alan Perlis
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
— Alan Perlis
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
— Alan Perlis
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
— Alan Perlis
One man's constant is another man's variable.
— Alan Perlis
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
— Alan Perlis
The best book on programming for the layman is 'Alice in Wonderland'; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
— Alan Perlis
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
— Alan Perlis
LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.
— Alan Perlis
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
— Alan Perlis
Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.
— Alan Perlis
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.
— Alan Perlis
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.
— Alan Perlis
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
— Alan Perlis
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
— Alan Perlis
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
— Alan Perlis
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?
— Alan Perlis
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
— Alan Perlis
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
— Alan Perlis
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