Quotes

At 05:55 AM 6/12/02 -0400, Jim Hendler wrote:

>[1] http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html

Nice!  I thought this should maybe be noted in the datatyping debate:

34. The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there 
is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.


And for the various semantic debates:

47. As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free 
variable."

50. When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- 
except our fingertips will have been singed.

102. One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.

#g



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