FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
There is no such thing as a free variable.
Any noun can be verbed.