What did Alan Perlis mean by: In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. - Alan Perlis Computer Scientist · USA Copy
+ Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alan Perlis, Ideas, Responsible, 0 - Alan Perlis Computer Scientist · USA
+ Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. Feraz Zeid, August 16, 2023December 12, 2023, Alan Perlis, Simple Life, Simplicity, 0 - Alan Perlis Computer Scientist · USA
+ There is no such thing as a free variable. Feraz Zeid, October 16, 2023December 26, 2023, Alan Perlis, 0 - Alan Perlis Computer Scientist · USA
+ There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alan Perlis, Errors, Writing, 0 - Alan Perlis Computer Scientist · USA
+ One man’s constant is another man’s variable. Feraz Zeid, October 14, 2023December 26, 2023, Alan Perlis, Constant, 0 - Alan Perlis Computer Scientist · USA
+ In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alan Perlis, Humorous, Running, 0 - Alan Perlis Computer Scientist · USA
+ We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alan Perlis, Nests, 0 - Alan Perlis Computer Scientist · USA
+ If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alan Perlis, Listeners, Program, 0 - Alan Perlis Computer Scientist · USA
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second. - Jean-Jacques Annaud Director · France
The Holy Spirit speaks many languages; among them the languages of art in all its forms. - Frank Griswold
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide. - Jean Genet Playwright · France
Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols. - George Henry Lewes Philosopher and literary critic · England
In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy. - Walt Disney Animator · USA
