Alan Perlis Programming Quotations

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

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

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.

Optimization hinders evolution.

Any noun can be verbed.

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