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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble. — Alan Perlis

LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing. — Alan Perlis

To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program. — Alan Perlis

FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer. — Alan Perlis

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming. — Alan Perlis

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

Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't. — Alan Perlis

One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic. Perlis 1982 — Alan J. Perlis

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer. — Alan Perlis

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. — Alan Perlis

The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information. — Alan J. Perlis

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. — Alan Perlis

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant. — Alan Perlis

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

You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program. — Alan Perlis

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve. — Alan Perlis

C programmers never die. They are just cast into void. — Alan Perlis

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones. — Alan Perlis

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

Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble. — Alan Perlis

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop. — Alan Perlis

Any noun can be verbed. — Alan Perlis

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. — Alan Perlis

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

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon. — Alan Perlis

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

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students. — Alan Perlis

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN. — Alan Perlis

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

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. — Alan Perlis

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

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn. — Alan Perlis

In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't. — Alan Perlis

The computing field is always in need of new cliches. — Alan Perlis