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

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

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Computers
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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. – Alan Perlis

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Technology
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Science
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Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. – Thomas Huxley

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Science

Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities. – Iain Banks

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We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of lifes pilgrimage. – Michael Shermer

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Science

When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science. – Shannon Lucid

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Science

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We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education. – Suze Orman

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I hate politics. I like to write about it, but to get involved in it, to try and make a lot of ignorant people do what you want them to do, waste of time. Go and write a book. Its more important and itll last longer. – Wilbur Smith

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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, youll become happy if you get a bad one, youll become a philosopher. – Socrates

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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. – Andre Gide

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