Epigrams on Programming is an article by Alan Perlis published in 1982, for ACM's SIGPLAN journal. They are a series of short, programming language neutral, humorous statements about computers and programming, which are widely quoted.
It first appeared in SIGPLAN Notices 17(9), September 1982.
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“If true that notion, which but few contest,
That in the way of wit short things are best,
Then in good epigrams two virtues meet,
For ‘tis their glory to be short and sweet.”
—Anonymous. From A Collection of Epigrams (1727)
“If there is a price to pay for the privilege of spending the early years of child rearing in the driver’s seat, it is our reluctance, our inability, to tolerate being demoted to the backseat. Spurred by our success in programming our children during the preschool years, we may find it difficult to forgo in later states the level of control that once afforded us so much satisfaction.”
—Melinda M. Marshall (20th century)