Alan Perlis

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

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?

LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.