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We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion. ↗

— Richard Perle

#difference #dissent #eager #lose #may

We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe. ↗

— Richard Perle

#british #europe #independence #must #our

We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington. ↗

— Richard Perle

#choose #european #european governments #force #governments

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#artificial #artificial intelligence #believe #enough #god

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#complexity #fools #geniuses #ignore #pragmatists

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#help #i #i think #inevitable #learn

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration". ↗

— Alan Perlis

#computing #definition #frustration #into #living

Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#every #program #purposes #two #which

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#every #languages #our #programming #were

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#against #attention #critical #detail #devoting