FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
There is no such thing as a free variable.
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.