Alan Perlis Quotes

Fun for us just happens to be screwing around with anything that gets our attention and is thought-provoking.

Humans test their brand new wings and invent new possibilities using new-fangled things not with grim determination, but with play.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

I think it is important for kids to be kids.

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

Art is about going a little nuts... Kids do art for fun. It's playing.

True play is creativity.

I believe in the power of play.

Steampunk is not a group of children in a classroom, sitting quietly while the teacher reads a story; it's the kids at recess, playing a wild, endless game of pretend.

What I love about 'Toast' is that there's always new stuff you can do with him.

I was playing with sound like I would have played with pots and pans as a kid.

I just write about what I feel I want to write about. I'm like a kid. I get an idea, and it's like a kid's toy that you push and tug around the room. It's fun, it's bright, it's pretty and maybe it'll go clack-clack or whiz-whiz, whatever it happens to do. I like to make believe.

If you're having fun, you wind up innovating.

You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously as well.

Anything that is impractical can be play. It's doing something other than what is necessary to continue living as an animal.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

I have fun with ideas; I play with them.