Alan Perlis's Quote - In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living defi

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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living defi

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

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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan. – Alan Perlis

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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer. – Alan Perlis

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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. – Alan Perlis

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What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself. – Steve Wozniak

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The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second- rate technology, led them into it in the first place. – Douglas Adams

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It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers dont pop into mind when one sees one. – Berkeley Breathed

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Over the eons Ive been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to simplify and bring order to my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm. – James Fallows

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