Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
ALAN PERLISBanality soothes our nerves.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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