Epigrams in Programming

  1. Computers don’t introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.

  2. When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

  3. In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.

  4. In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.

  5. We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around.