Alan Perlis

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

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

Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives.

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.