Quotes by Alan Perlis

Alan Perlis

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

Alan Perlis

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

Alan Perlis

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Alan Perlis

One man's constant is another man's variable.

Alan Perlis

Computer science is a restless infant and its progress depends as much on shifts in point of view as on the orderly development of our current concepts.

Alan Perlis

Both knowledge and wisdom extend man's reach. Knowledge led to computers, wisdom to chopsticks.