Alan Perlis Quotes

No two people see things the same way.

What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another.

Do not forget that others won’t see the problems the way you look at or vice versa.

What's perfect for one mom might be the worst idea for another.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

There's no common taste in this world.

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.

Maybe your weird is my normal. Who's to say?

So many men, so many opinions: to each his own way.

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

Change is always subjective.

Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.

It's hard to tell what people realize. Everybody's different and has a different understanding of the difference in times.

Something that works for one person could be a disadvantage to another.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

There are no great people. There are only great topics.

I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

Normal is in the eye of the beholder.

I just can't help but see things differently.