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. – Alan Perlis
You can measure a programmers perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN. – Alan Perlis
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it. – Alan Perlis
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word frustration. – Alan Perlis
The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance. – Lewis Thomas