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

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• 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.

• Alan Perlis:

  Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

• Alan Perlis:

  Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

• Alan Perlis:

  The best book on programming for the layman is 'Alice in Wonderland'; but that's because it's the b

• Alan Perlis:

  There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

• Alan Perlis:

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