“79: A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.”
Alan Perlis Epigrams on Programming
Epigrams on Programming, 1982
“79: A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.”
Alan Perlis Epigrams on Programming
Epigrams on Programming, 1982
“59: In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.”
Alan Perlis Epigrams on Programming
Epigrams on Programming, 1982
“1: One man's constant is another man's variable.”
Alan Perlis Epigrams on Programming
Epigrams on Programming, 1982
Alan Perlis Epigrams on Programming
Epigrams on Programming, 1982
“95: Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.”
Alan Perlis Epigrams on Programming
Epigrams on Programming, 1982
“41: Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.”
Alan Perlis Epigrams on Programming
Epigrams on Programming, 1982
Alan Perlis Epigrams on Programming
Epigrams on Programming, 1982
The Synthesis of Algorithmic Systems, 1966
“We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.”
Quoted in The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.