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"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it."
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"It's simple, it's not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to deflate it. In the end, neither images are fully accurate."
"As a human I'm complex, as a human I don't have limits, but the book have it's own limits. All the time something good happens?? But why people don't continue to live in horror??It satisfies me, to see how people suck blood it's a symptom that you are watching a vampire... But it's to far isn't it??Sometimes to dream, how you dream and how you wake up in the dream and you wake up from that dream... wow that's awesome!?"
"Many books describe different problem solving techniques, but solving complicated problems in reality is not so easy."
"You know what is the most complicated feature of human nature? It is the term complication itself. We are never satisfied with keeping things simple. We always tend to exaggerate even the simplest phenomenon of this planet."
"The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity."
"Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language."
"She decided to make his life as terrible, tragic and complicated as possible, so that some day Percy Jackson would have a really hard time writing about it."
"The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations."
"Dealing with any man means dealing with multiple personalities."
Explore more quotes by Alan Perlis
"The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman."
"In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration"."
"A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures."
"I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it."
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