Quotes of Alan Perlis

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

- Alan Perlis

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“ Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an everfixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken." (Sonnet 116) ”

- William Shakespeare

“ To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. ”

- Woody Allen

“ The key to success is not through achievement but through enthusiasm. ”

- Malcolm Forbes

“ The more one judges, the less one loves. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ I am convinced that one should tell one's spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from Heaven every day to stay in a golden ciborium; He comes to find another heaven, the heaven of our soul in which He loves to dwell. ”

- St. Therese of Lisieux

“ I miss your voice because it is a symphony; your scent because it is a treasure; your smile because it is a jewel; your hug because it is a masterpiece; and your kiss because it is a miracle. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes. ”

- Paulo Coelho

“ When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Dream so big you get uncomfortable telling smallminded people. ”

- Praharsh Prasoon

“ What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. ”

- Helen Keller

“ Looks like to me we all begin and end in the same place. Perhaps we could love each other a little bit more along the way. ”

- Clyde Lee Dennis

“ In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write? ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. ”

- T.S. Eliot

“ Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution. ”

- Ram Dass

“ Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper... ”

- Demi Lovato

“ Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. ”

- Michael Novak

“ Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love? ”

- Orhan Pamuk

“ Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was ”

- Albert Schweitzer

“ Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. ”

- Chuck Klosterman

“ Sitting too long produces trees. ”

- Lorin MorganRichards