Logo
Quote by Alan Perlis
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer. - Alan Perlis

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer. – Alan Perlis

Other quotes by 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

Category:
Education
Author
Alan Perlis
Read Quote

You can measure a programmers perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN. – Alan Perlis

Category:
Attitude
Author
Alan Perlis
Read Quote

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it. – Alan Perlis

Category:
Technology
Author
Alan Perlis
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Science
category

Science is a self-sufficient activity. – Jonathan Miller

Category:
Science

Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science. – Paul Nurse

Category:
Science

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong. – Albert Einstein

Category:
Science

What Im working on now – Im back to fantasy, although considering that its me, Im turning it into a kind of science fantasy. Its a vampire story – but my vampires are biological vampires. They didnt become vampires because someone bit them they were born that way. – Octavia Butler

Category:
Science

Random Quotes

The map is not the territory. – Alfred Korzybski

Category:
Philosophical

The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses. – Henry Van Dyke

Category:
Perspective

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world. – Edwin Markham

Category:
Farming

Listen, whatever makes the movie better. Thats the attitude you have to have. – Joseph Kosinski

Category:
Attitude