Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLIS In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
ALAN PERLIS We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
ALAN PERLIS Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.
ALAN PERLIS If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
ALAN PERLIS Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
ALAN PERLIS The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of proces...
ALAN PERLIS Every program has (at least) two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it...
ALAN PERLIS One man's constant is another man's variable.
ALAN PERLIS The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
ALAN PERLIS A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words ...
ALAN PERLIS It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to mak...
ALAN PERLIS In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustratio...
ALAN PERLIS Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
ALAN PERLIS A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
ALAN PERLIS It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in makin...
ALAN PERLIS You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing viability of For...
ALAN PERLIS Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the w...
ALAN PERLIS The best book on programming for the layman is 'Alice in Wonderland'; but that's because...
ALAN PERLIS The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the be...
ALAN PERLIS If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
ALAN PERLIS It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
ALAN PERLIS When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give hi...
ALAN PERLIS There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
ALAN PERLIS A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
ALAN PERLIS Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
ALAN PERLIS If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
ALAN PERLIS You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORT...
ALAN PERLIS Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
ALAN PERLIS One man's constant is another man's variable.
ALAN PERLIS It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
ALAN PERLIS I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. W...
ALAN PERLIS Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't...
ALAN PERLIS LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.
ALAN PERLIS You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of ...
ALAN PERLIS In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
ALAN PERLIS If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
ALAN PERLIS I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. Whe...
ALAN J. PERLIS A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
ALAN J. PERLIS Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
ALAN J. PERLIS I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. ... What you know about computin...
ALAN J. PERLIS If art interprets our dreams, the computer executes them in the guise of programs!
ALAN J. PERLIS What's in your hands I think and hope is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than w...
ALAN J. PERLIS Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant
to be discarded: that ...
ALAN J. PERLIS Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved th...
ALAN J. PERLIS Our content carries the Forbes name, and our whole mantra is to put authoritative journalism at the ...
MICHAEL PERLIS Not everyone can come and post on Forbes; it's a very distinguishing factor for us. We vet the f...
MICHAEL PERLIS 'Forbes' has championed entrepreneurism since its founding.
MICHAEL PERLIS We'll have, by the end of 2013, 30 local language editions of Forbes, many of those are pioneers...
MICHAEL PERLIS Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm.
ALAN No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
ALAN WATTS I think most people have that crazy uncle they sit at Thanksgiving dinner with: someone they disagre...
ALAN COLMES Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest po...
ALAN STERN Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETT I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
ALAN BENNETT I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.
ALAN BENNETT We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me ch...
ALAN BENNETT I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.
ALAN BENNETT I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't qu...
ALAN BENNETT I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fall...
ALAN BENNETT I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
ALAN BENNETT I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that...
ALAN BENNETT All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
ALAN BENNETT We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's...
ALAN BENNETT Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
ALAN BENNETT I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The...
ALAN BENNETT Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
ALAN BENNETT Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
ALAN BENNETT Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception...
ALAN BENNETT Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETT Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; o...
ALAN BENNETT Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.
ALAN BENNETT If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
ALAN KING I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard.
ALAN TURING I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don'...
ALAN TURING I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature co...
ALAN TURING Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two ...
ALAN TURING No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brai...
ALAN TURING I want to enjoy not getting recognised while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can...
ALAN WALKER Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.
ALAN BULLOCK The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
ALAN WATTS People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAY I'll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity to industry and commerce.
ALAN AUTRY Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, il...
ALAN MOORE I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I kn...
ALAN MOORE We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
ALAN WATTS Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
ALAN PATON You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven...
ALAN GREENSPAN I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' A...
ALAN BALL Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
ALAN PARKER I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it pers...
ALAN BALL Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go u...
ALAN GREENSPAN And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, ...
ALAN WATTS There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world insid...
ALAN MOORE Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of ea...
ALAN KAY If we don't re-charge the American Brand, all future challenges - economic, social and political...
ALAN SIEGEL On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12....
ALAN RICKMAN So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impos...
ALAN WATTS Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
ALAN WATTS So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they...
ALAN WATTS Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is a...
ALAN WATTS In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about th...
ALAN WATTS I owe my solitude to other people.
ALAN WATTS We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
ALAN WATTS Saints need sinners.
ALAN WATTS You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
ALAN WATTS Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
ALAN WATTS No work for love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans fo...
ALAN WATTS Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the s...
ALAN WATTS Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the s...
ALAN WATTS How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instr...
ALAN WATTS The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
ALAN WATTS Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in t...
ALAN KEYES Arsenal paid a lot of money for him a few years ago but he found it difficult to claim a first-team ...
ALAN CURBISHLEY It was a great night for us and a great achievement. Who knows what will happen in the next round. I...
ALAN CURBISHLEY There has not really been a lot going on for Stephan, he has not had many saves to make. I want to h...
ALAN CURBISHLEY There may be players wanting to leave, and obviously I have a surplus in the forward area, so this w...
ALAN CURBISHLEY I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
ALAN CUMMING Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
ALAN CUMMING It's a sort of anti-Broadway musical. It's odd, disjointed and spiky.
ALAN CUMMING Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what...
ALAN CUMMING It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
ALAN CUMMING It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
ALAN CUMMING When Brian went by me, I thought he was some guy that jumped on the course.
ALAN CULPEPPER In Athens, I was running in long sleeves and pants in the summertime to acclimate as much as I could...
ALAN CULPEPPER If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which incl...
ALAN LIGHTMAN At this point, our office is going to prepare to go to trial again, ... We believe the jury will com...
ALAN CURRY We haven't made a decision yet. I think there's several options open to us and that's something work...
ALAN CURRY Andrea Yates knew precisely what she was doing, ... She knew that it was wrong.
ALAN CURRY He has come here to gain experience, and nothing can happen until December anyway. I believe Gary Ne...
ALAN CURBISHLEY I left some of the boys out completely to have a rest,
ALAN CURBISHLEY We moved in straight away, and although he was publicly linked with other clubs, we were always conf...
ALAN CURBISHLEY Danny is a player we have been tracking for some time, but he only became available last week,
ALAN CURBISHLEY Claus had one year remaining on his contract and made it clear that he didn't wish to renew his deal...
ALAN CURBISHLEY The player wanted to come to us and we are very pleased to welcome him.
ALAN CURBISHLEY We don't believe isolated testimony on cross examination by one of our witnesses had such an impact ...
ALAN CURRY We are hopeful that we can now finally place our complete focus upon going to trial.
ALAN CURRY The case has already been reversed once, so we want to make sure we proceed correctly and appropriat...
ALAN CURRY I would anticipate this case is going to have to be retried.
ALAN CURRY It's just a matter of our blokes lifting their game. They haven't been playing to their usual standa...
ALAN DAVIDSON We?re pleased with the vitality we're seeing in the UK market. Our company accounted for close to a ...
ALAN CURTIS One can always hope, but I worry this will be a repeat of that experience. After the 1960 riots, the...
ALAN CURTIS [Some found Bush's words reassuring. Others worried that they would not resonate far into the future...
ALAN CURTIS But the major mistake is to take the census report as a one-year phenomenon. This is the fourth stra...
ALAN CURTIS If anything, the numbers out of the Census Bureau underestimate the problem of poverty in America,
ALAN CURTIS This is an unusual case, but the state has previously shown that the defendant knew that her conduct...
ALAN CURRY It is kind-of the same issue, but they have added a couple of different elements to it, a couple of ...
ALAN CURRY The case was reversed on appeal. She's gotten a new trial. She's gained the relief she's entitled to...
ALAN CURRY He had a fool proof plan for not getting a job - In the event of an interview wear flip-flops.
ALAN DAVIES I think a lot of people feel it would be a mistake.
ALAN DAVIDSON Consumers need to be notified when and what location information is collected,
ALAN DAVIDSON Consumers won't use systems they don't trust. Location services monitor movement and habits, somethi...
ALAN DAVIDSON From a group that cares about civil liberties and cares about kids, this is the right answer.
ALAN DAVIDSON This finding, if it's true, still doesn't change the basic argument we're having about the standards...
ALAN DAVIDSON They admitted to making a huge mistake and they said they'd pay the money back, ... They showed some...
ALAN DAVIDSON it was a mixed day for the Internet on Capital Hill.
ALAN DAVIDSON We ought to build systems that encourage 911 location services but that are not just personal tracki...
ALAN DAVIDSON I think there are huge land mines with wireless ahead.
ALAN DAVIDSON It's been a long time coming. Thank God for this day.
ALAN CROTZER Here I am trying to build a life and I have nothing to build it with. It's wrong, just wrong.
ALAN CROTZER If you really want the truth, leave no stone unturned.
ALAN CROTZER There ain't no compensation for what they done to me. But I'm not bitter.
ALAN CROTZER Especially when it comes to sex offenses, history is a big predictor of the future,
ALAN CROPSEY When he was in the United States Senate, he was noted as an intellectual powerhouse,
ALAN CROPSEY Our rights are not given to us by society, ... My view is that our rights come from God. We start ou...
ALAN CROPSEY He's a very formidable personality when it comes to Washington, D.C.
ALAN CROPSEY When you have a chance to make plays and don't, you can almost be assured the final score will not f...
ALAN CRAWFORD You must give Campbell credit. When we had runners in scoring position, they either made plays or th...
ALAN CRAWFORD Look, we have that problem solved, because there are only three of them in the Olympics. We got 187 ...
ALAN CULPEPPER The Olympic Games tends to be a little more of a coming together of all the nations, so it's differe...
ALAN CULPEPPER Our sport needs spectator friendly and all the help it can get on that side. That adds to the allure...
ALAN CULPEPPER There was a moment there when we were getting concerned,
ALAN CULPEPPER Most countries around the world, they just don't think that way. They think, 'I'm just going to get ...
ALAN CULPEPPER I feel like the bad conditions and the tough course is to my advantage, just because a lot of people...
ALAN CULPEPPER Every time we tried to get going there was some factor -- weather, wind or turns. I think we all suf...
ALAN CULPEPPER For Athens and Boston, I had really prepared for tough conditions, whereas here you can just prepare...
ALAN CULPEPPER Basically I'm from the old school. We try to score one run an inning in any fashion. A lot of times ...
ALAN CRAWFORD Our defense has been real inconsistent. We've got five weeks to fix it. Hopefully by district tourna...
ALAN CRAWFORD They're nice kids to coach. They work hard. They hit their spots. They don't try to strike everybody...
ALAN CRAWFORD I don't think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, b...
ALAN CRANSTON I don't feel any need for redemption. I'm satisfied with what I did in the Senate. I don't look back...
ALAN CRANSTON I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision...
ALAN CRANSTON Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things ...
ALAN CRANSTON The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, havin...
ALAN CRANSTON The American people are much more concerned about taxes, welfare, the deficit, crime, education, dru...
ALAN CRANSTON It's important to recognize that many people working together can do things which individuals workin...
ALAN CRANSTON There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time, I believe. France and G...
ALAN CRANSTON For [customers] it means that they can shop for 'Linux applications' without having to worry about w...
ALAN COX I do enjoy grinning manically at passing people while waving an axe around attempting to kill off un...
ALAN COX What matters are the applications.
ALAN COX I'm going to Disneyland!
ALAN COX It's all right to cry. It's all right to hurt. It's all right to be confused, ... Hope will rebuild ...
ALAN COX He's a great kid.
ALAN COX They put over 100 million gates/transistors on a tiny piece of silicon. On that piece of silicon the...
ALAN COX I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the re...
ALAN COX Live fast, die old, and make very sure everyone knows you were there.
ALAN COX The promoter is all you need for activation and silencing. It's the main site of action where everyt...
ALAN COWMAN The promoter is all you need for activation and silencing. It's the main site of action where everyt...
ALAN COWMAN