Quotes by Alan Perlis

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

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

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

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

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.

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