Alan Perlis Thinking Quotations

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

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.

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

Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.

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