Epigrams in Programming

  1. Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

  2. You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

  3. In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

  4. 44.Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.

  5. The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.