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Some good statements, some wrong ones, and a bunch of gibberish.
A good summary. Nonetheless, I like this little gem: "Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa."
would you care to elaborate on which ones are which?
How can someone be judgmental about epigrams?
>As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."

There is a reason behind every single epigram selected for the list.

>As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."

If you meditate for a while on any epigram on the list, you'll start thinking about another meaning.

One of the more interesting examples - if you have a somewhat broad overview of programming languages, and a pinch of cross-cultural awareness: If your computer speaks English it was probably made in Japan.

> Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.

Can anyone confirm? :)

Nope; still can't read my own code.
I've written on paper from childhood and I still can't read my own handwriting.

I remember one time I found something I'd written in grade school and I could barely make it out -- until suddenly the memory clicked in my brain and I could understand every word. But only because I was associating the crude shapes with memories of what I wrote!

It is much the same with my programs.

Yes. "You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it."
Perhaps the most important ones are:

> Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

And:

> Within a computer natural language is unnatural.

There's one more, but it might be too direct for people to accept:

> Programming is an unnatural act.