76 Quotes by Alan Perlis

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

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

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".

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

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

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

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.