“The computing field is always in need of new cliches.” — Alan Perlis Quote

“The computing field is always in need of new cliches.”

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

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

“That's why I hate the outlines and treatments, because all you get are cliches. If you put things down on paper as your plan, it's very hard to get those ideas out of your head and do something better.”

“The American 'slave genre' of films has picked up some good and bad cliches over the years and, unfortunately, 'The Underground Railroad' seems to have picked up the worst of them.”

“What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.”