Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

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• Alan Perlis:

  Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

• Alan Perlis:

  I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters.

• Alan Perlis:

  If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

• Alan Perlis:

  In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.

• Alan Perlis:

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

• Alan Perlis:

  In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

• Alan Perlis:

  Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the

• Alan Perlis:

  It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to ma

• Alan Perlis:

  It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

• Alan Perlis:

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