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Alan Perlis
 
Date of birth: 01 April 1922
Date of death: 07 February 1990
Country Of Origin: America
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Computer Scientist

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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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" A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant. "

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" A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. "

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" Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer. "

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" Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them. "

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" Every program has (at least) two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't. "

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" Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. "

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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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" If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up. "

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

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" If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan. "

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" 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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" In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration". "

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" In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. "

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" In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. "

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