Epigrams in Programming

  1. Optimization hinders evolution.

  2. A good system can’t have a weak command language.

  3. To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.

  4. Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we’d be able to read them.

  5. One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.