Optimization hinders evolution.
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.