Epigrams in Programming

  1. Bringing computers into the home won’t change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.

  2. Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub-systems and so on ad infinitum – which is why we’re always starting over.

  3. So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.

  4. Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.

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