top of page

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

Alan Perlis, American Scientist

11

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

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

Exlpore more Man quotes

"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Man, Men, Wrong

"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

"Genius: the superhuman in man."

Victor Hugo, French Author

"Men exist for the sake of one another."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."

Jane Austen, British Writer

"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Man, Men, Land, Sea

"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Man, Men, Women, Fortune, Pretty

Explore more quotes by Alan Perlis

"There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works."

"In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration"."

"Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer."

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

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

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

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

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

"A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God."

"The computing field is always in need of new cliches."

bottom of page