Alan Perlis Quotes
58: Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.
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The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.
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I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.
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A ton of kids at school have made fun of me; if I had to give advice to other girls, I would say, 'Hang loose and ignore them. They shouldn't faze you no matter how popular they think they are.'
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When people are putting pressure on me I just completely ignore it.
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This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are - not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole.
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When I talk about the Internet, it's because young people are there. TV and radio are still what moves the masses, and you can't ignore that. But you also have to feed that monster that grows daily, which is the Internet.
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There's more people to ignore in New York or Boston than there are in Milwaukee, but I would still ignore them, probably.
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I'm pretty sure the last time any anchor could honestly ignore ratings was well before I was born.
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There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
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If you have doubt about a person's humility or smarts, don't ignore it. More often than not, there is something causing that doubt.
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Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.
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If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!
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When I started losing business to salespeople who were using used-car salesmen kind of tactics, I realized I can't ignore the EQ thing; it's going to kill sales.
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For all the benefits of being in the public eye, there is the odd downside, too. Twitter goes mad sometimes with people saying weird stuff. It is a bit strange, but you can just ignore them. It is not even worth getting worked up about.
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'I ignore religions,' said Brawne Lamia. 'I do not succumb to them.'
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It’s just not right that Donald Trump can ignore his debts, but students and families can’t refinance their debt.
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Our development strategy is based on a deep understanding of our customers. They want high-quality products and good service.
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One bulls-eye and you're rich and famous. The rich get more famous and the famous get rich. You're the talk of the town....The sense of so much depending on success is very hard to ignore, perhaps impossible. It leads to disproportionate anxiety and disproportionate relief or disappointment.
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The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.
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Benchmarks are targets that have to be fulfilled. They cannot be fulfilled in an indefinite period of time, so there are timetables in benchmarks.
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God can dream a bigger dream for you then you could ever dream for yourself.
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So the study of the ways of animals will help us to delve more deeply into the life sciences, increase our knowledge of the nature of things, and expand our love.
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58: Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
