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.

FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

One man's constant is another man's variable.

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

The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

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