Optimization hinders evolution.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

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

A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.