Formal Quote by Alan Perlis Download Open image “One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.” — Alan Perlis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Formal Mean
But it is certainly not possible to insist on one hand that the formalism is complete and to insist on the other hand that… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I suppose in our culture - in our lifetime - we've always enjoyed people who tell it straight. We like our presidents, our comedians,… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“an authentic personal style cannot be achieved without a solid technique at its base.” — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
I have a confidence in my understanding of formal aesthetics and I don't want to be aware of it or make that my problem. — Eva Hesse Copy Share Image
“Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady. Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy… — Yukteswar Giri Copy Share Image
There's never been a better time to change the way you think. Replace every 'I can't' with 'How can I?' It might sound like… — Maynard Webb Copy Share Image
STYLE IS NOT HOW YOU WRITE IT IS HOW YOUDO NOT WRITE LIKE ANYONE ELSE — Charles Ghigna 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
While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity. I seek… — Dawoud Bey Copy Share Image
I would love a sandwich,' said Tybalt, with enough gravity to make it sound like a formal proclamation. Resolved: that we will have ham… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men's… — Steven Cojocaru Copy Share Image
There are thus two tasks for the Mass Media division of Unesco, the one general, the other special. The special one is to enlist… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends. — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but… — Hal Abelson Copy Share Image
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