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I've seen several of these before in SICP and other places, but happy to find a longer collection here! Perlis just has his own style and humour...

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A list of my favourites:

3. "Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon."

14. "In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble."

19. "A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing."

55. "A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing."