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

Thought, Thoughts

8

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

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

Exlpore more Thought quotes

"We are what we think."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Thought, Thinking, Mind, Power, Creation

"Think of what you desire out of life."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Thought, Desire, Thinking, Truth, Life

"Who I am? Am I thinking?"

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Thought, Identity, Thinking, Philosophy, Self

"Most people don't think most of the time. They just use other people's thoughts as a crutch to get by."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Thought, People, Think, Most, Time

"I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and they're right."

Todd Barry, American Comedian

Thought, Error, Logic, Right

"It is too ordinary for us to think we are too ordinary. It is too unwise for us to think we are too wise. It is too sinful for us to think we are too sinful beyond pardon. It would be too unrighteous for us to think we are too righteous. There is always something we may think about, but let us think about something!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Thought, Balance, Humility, Truth

"I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek."

Patrick Stewart, English Actor

Thought, Force, Past

"I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them."

Liam Neeson, Irish Actor

Thought, People, Help, Kids

"I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Thought, People, Beginning

"But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don't wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early."

Susan Estrich, American Journalist

Thought,

Explore more quotes by Alan Perlis

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

Man

"It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical."

Education

"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it."

Complexity

"If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan."

Computer

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

Complexity

"You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN."

Attitude

"A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant."

Attention

"I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it."

People

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

Ideas

"It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa."

Change