Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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.
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.