Alan Perlis Quotes & Sayings
27 most famous Alan Perlis quotes and sayings (scientist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“One man's constant is another man's variable.”
“A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.”
“In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.”
“Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.”
“Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.”
“In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.”
“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?”
“You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.”
“There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.”
“It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.”
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