Alan Perlis Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.”

“Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.”

“LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.”

“If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.”

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

“The computing field is always in need of new cliches.”