Alan J. Perlis quote: "What's in your hands I think and hope is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were ﬁrst led up to it that you can make it more."

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

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

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

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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

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

My undergraduate years at the University of Nebraska were a special time in my life: the combination...
ALAN J. HEEGER

I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go t...
ALAN J. HEEGER

Polymer synthesis in the 1950s was dominated by Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta, whose discoveries of ...
ALAN J. HEEGER

The transitions from metallic to critical behavior and from critical to insulating behavior have bee...
ALAN J. HEEGER

In spite of the evidence for the disorder-induced M-I transition as inferred from the transport and ...
ALAN J. HEEGER

The science of semiconducting and metallic polymers is inherently interdisciplinary; it falls at the...
ALAN J. HEEGER

It's a mass extinction in the making.
J. ALAN POUNDS

Polymeric materials in the form of wood, bone, skin and fibers have been used by man since prehistor...
ALAN J. HEEGER

I am oblique; I think that has to do with my own nature. I like trying to do things which work on ma...
ALAN J. PAKULA

The scaling theory of localization demonstrated that the disorder-induced M-I transition was a true ...
ALAN J. HEEGER

Disease is the bullet that's killing the frogs. But climate change is pulling the trigger. Global wa...
J. ALAN POUNDS

My high school years were fun and frustrating, typical of the teen years. The most important accompl...
ALAN J. HEEGER

Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that ...
ALAN J. PAKULA

Some actors come to the set ready to do their parts a certain way.
ALAN J. PAKULA

A man who is in control, and inside there is a frightened child - that interests me. Why? You can dr...
ALAN J. PAKULA

Most of us live in a safe world. We don't have to fight for our values, we don't have to fig...
ALAN J. PAKULA

I've hardly had an avant-garde career... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to ...
ALAN J. PAKULA

I started out as a physicist; however, I am what I have become. I have evolved, with the help of man...
ALAN J. HEEGER

In 1990, Paul Smith and I decided that conducting polymers as materials had developed to a level of ...
ALAN J. HEEGER

I like to work hard and play hard.
ALAN J. DIXON

I'm a man who enjoys people, enjoys a good time.
ALAN J. DIXON

But paradoxically, the losses of harlequin frogs were taking place in unusually warm years.
J. ALAN POUNDS

The basic message is that global warming is already causing species extinctions and a lot of them.
J. ALAN POUNDS

Global warming is wreaking havoc on amphibians and will cause staggering losses of biodiversity if w...
J. ALAN POUNDS

I suspect that climate change is involved in general in these enigmatic declines. Ultimately we have...
J. ALAN POUNDS

Disease is the bullet killing frogs, but climate change is pulling the trigger.
J. ALAN POUNDS

Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm.
ALAN

My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something th...
J. J. WATT

No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short tur...
J. J. WATT

When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a rela...
J. J. WATT

I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that&...
J. J. WATT

Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professiona...
J. J. WATT

If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He'...
J. J. WATT

Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out ...
J. J. WATT

I get a lot of letters that say, 'I'm a normal, down-to-earth girl. I love to cook, and I lo...
J. J. WATT

My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on the...
J. J. WATT

If you're going to nap, make sure you have a proper chunk of time blocked out. I'm not one o...
J. J. WATT

I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I w...
J. J. WATT

When it comes down to that moment, when it's me against you, you know in your head whether you w...
J. J. WATT

You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give ev...
J. J. WATT

I ate a whole 20-inch pizza by myself one time.
J. J. WATT

A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it...
J. J. WATT

I'll fight a bear, but I don't like spiders. I'm not a fan of those.
J. J. WATT

I never want to let a day go by without having done something to get a little better.
J. J. WATT

There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face jus...
J. J. WATT

I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
J. J. WATT

People always ask, 'Man, why don't you come out and enjoy it? Why don't you celebrate? W...
J. J. WATT

A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ...
J. J. WATT

If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you...
J. J. WATT

I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
J. J. WATT

Midi is my hobby.
J. J. JOHNSON

There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the l...
J. J. JOHNSON

I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood...
J. J. JOHNSON

Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've ...
J. J. JOHNSON

We have this obsession with broken homes. Everyone wants to find a problem with it, but not me. I ha...
J. J. FIELD

You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows...
J. J. FIELD

The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.
J. J. FIELD

The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage...
J. J. ABRAMS

I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
J. J. ABRAMS

I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
J. J. ABRAMS

I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
J. J. ABRAMS

When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid t...
J. J. ABRAMS

People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be su...
J. J. ABRAMS

The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
J. J. ABRAMS

I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, ...
J. J. ABRAMS

I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.
J. J. ABRAMS

Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
J. J. ABRAMS

Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
J. J. ABRAMS

I don't think I have a signature.
J. J. ABRAMS

I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginat...
J. J. ABRAMS

I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the ...
J. J. ABRAMS

I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a...
J. J. ABRAMS

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end...
J. J. ABRAMS

When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
J. J. ABRAMS

You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
J. J. ABRAMS

To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
J. J. ABRAMS

I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
J. J. ABRAMS

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
J. J. ABRAMS

It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
J. J. ABRAMS

When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and t...
J. J. ABRAMS

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles ...
J. J. ABRAMS

You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
J. J. ABRAMS

When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics an...
J. J. WATT

I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
J. J. WATT

There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
J. J. PROCTER

If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every si...
J. J. WATT

I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and ener...
J. J. WATT

What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
J. J. WATT

I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
J. J. ABRAMS

Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
J. J. FURNAS

What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so exci...
J. J. ABRAMS

My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice pres...
J. J. WATT

I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I th...
J. J. WATT

What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically...
J. J. ABRAMS

With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
J. J. ABRAMS

You can find just about everything on my iPod from Eminem to Zac Brown to Justin Timberlake to One D...
J. J. WATT

My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to p...
J. J. WATT

When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, ...
J. J. WATT

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing ...
J. J. ABRAMS

I Googled 'What do rich people buy?' Because I don't feel like a rich person, and I don&...
J. J. WATT

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that ...
J. J. ABRAMS

It's hard to understand the life that I live and rationalize some of the things that I do. I don...
J. J. WATT

In the off-season, I train twice a day, five times a week with my trainer. Then, there's always ...
J. J. WATT

The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinis...
J. J. WATT

You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, ...
J. J. ABRAMS

I love the Stanley Cup playoffs.
J. J. WATT

There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappea...
J. J. GREENE

I'm a fast writer.
J. J. ABRAMS

There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I'm talking...
J. J. WATT

It's literally, if I'm not working out, I eat the whole time I'm not working out. It'...
J. J. WATT

It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
J. J. WATT

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

What's in your hands I think and hope is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were ﬁrst led up to it that you can make it more.

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What's in your hands I think and hope is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were ﬁrst led up to it that you can make it more.

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