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If there are epigrams, there must be meta-epigrams.


Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages
whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits
LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982


Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982


Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages
whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits
LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982


“We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last
theorem.”

-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982


When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before --
except our fingertips will have been singed.

-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982


If there are epigrams, there must be meta-epigrams.


“We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.”
-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982


Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to
measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you
imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?

-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982


When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before --
except our fingertips will have been singed.
-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982


When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before --
except our fingertips will have been singed.
-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982


Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub-systems and so on ad
infinitum -- which is why we're always starting over.
-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982


In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982


Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub-systems and so on ad
infinitum -- which is why we're always starting over.

-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982


Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to
measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you
imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?
-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982


“We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.”
-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982


Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to
measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you
imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?
-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982


Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden:
Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP
machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.

-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982


“The eleventh commandment was `Thou Shalt Compute' or `Thou Shalt Not
Compute' -- I forget which.”

-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982


Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982


If there are epigrams, there must be meta-epigrams.


In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.

-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982


Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand
progress.

-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982


If there are epigrams, there must be meta-epigrams.


Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982


“The eleventh commandment was `Thou Shalt Compute' or `Thou Shalt Not
Compute' -- I forget which.”
-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982


“The eleventh commandment was `Thou Shalt Compute' or `Thou Shalt Not
Compute' -- I forget which.”
-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982


Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub-systems and so on ad
infinitum -- which is why we're always starting over.
-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982


Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982


Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982