What did Alan Perlis mean by: In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t. - Alan Perlis Computer Scientist · USA Copy
+ A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alan Perlis, Language, Learn, 0 - Alan Perlis Computer Scientist · USA
+ Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alan Perlis, Language, Programming, Progress, 0 - Alan Perlis Computer Scientist · USA
+ There is no such thing as a free variable. Feraz Zeid, October 16, 2023December 26, 2023, Alan Perlis, 0 - Alan Perlis Computer Scientist · USA
+ There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alan Perlis, Errors, Writing, 0 - Alan Perlis Computer Scientist · USA
+ In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alan Perlis, Definitions, Frustrated, Frustration, 0 - Alan Perlis Computer Scientist · USA
+ In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alan Perlis, Humorous, Running, 0 - Alan Perlis Computer Scientist · USA
+ A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alan Perlis, Knowing, Learn, 0 - Alan Perlis Computer Scientist · USA
+ A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alan Perlis, Cost, Programmers, 0 - Alan Perlis Computer Scientist · USA
To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
If you can make it sound exciting with a joke drum machine, you know you’ve got something. - Jeff Beck
I don’t speak … I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own. - Frank Herbert Author · USA
After all, it is we who adapt to the machine. The machine does not adapt to us. - Friedrich Kittler Media theorist · Germany
The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path. - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
