Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: — Alan Perlis
In english every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. — Alan Perlis
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”. — Alan Perlis
You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of fortran. — Alan Perlis