Comment by spot

13 years ago

Perlis was a total genius. My favorite is

66. Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.

see http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spot/nitrous/top.html

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brudgers 13 years ago

The Official Yale version of Perlis's epigrams:

http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html

Archive.org's backup of the [behind a paywall] ACM article:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080513191245/http://www-pu.info...