English Quote by Alan Perlis

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

— Alan Perlis

FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.

— Alan Perlis

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

— Alan Perlis

You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you…

— Alan Perlis

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

— Alan Perlis

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

— Alan Perlis

I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot…

— Alan Perlis

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

— Alan Perlis

While we like to think queueing is unique to British culture, the truth is that we are mere amateurs. The old Soviet Union turned…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

I'm not very good at standard English.

— James Nesbitt

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

— Anonymous

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

— Glen Duncan