Computing Quote by Alan Perlis Download Open image “If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.” — Alan Perlis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Computing Parameters Procedures
Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return — Rob Pike Copy Share Image
“people will focus on procedures and not notice anything that isn't just part of the procedures” — Daniel Simons Copy Share Image
Everything makes sense, it's just your parameters (evaluation parameters) that don't allow you to understand before someone's different viewpoint and you will suddenly judge… — Carlos Alves Copy Share Image
It is just knowing we have to trust our process, trust our basics, knowing that if we do nine out of 10, 10 out… — Aaron Ramsdale Copy Share Image
Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can't see any difference between take one and take 20. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
We developed simple test tools to optimize imaging parameters. No company was interested in our idea. — John Cameron Copy Share Image
Dear person who finishes test in 10 minutes, I HOPE YOU FAIL! Sincerely, still on first question. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes there's something that you need a few takes to get it and if it takes 15 takes, it takes 15 takes. It really depends. — Nick Jonas Copy Share Image
Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot… — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Many jobs at Google require math, computing, and coding skills, so if your good grades truly reflect skills in those areas that you can… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that the resulting… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
At every juncture, advanced tools have been the key to a new wave of applications, and each wave of applications has been key to… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
If we don't figure out a way to have secure, connected healthcare, or connectivity and computing, we won't have that industry develop. — Steve Mollenkopf Copy Share Image
Automobiles and the automotive industry are increasingly driven by data and computing. The saying 'What's under the hood' will increasingly refer to computing, not… — Brian Krzanich Copy Share Image
I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot… — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
