About Alan Perlis: Alan Jay Perlis was an American computer scientist known for his pioneering work in programming languages and the first recipient of the Turing Award.
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
