Fortran Quotes

#1. FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.

Ken Thompson

#2. Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

Philip Greenspun

#3. I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.

Tony Hoare

#4. In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.

Edsger Dijkstra

#5. You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

Alan Perlis

#6. Betty Snyder, who, under her married name, Betty Holberton, went on to become a pioneer programmer who helped develop the COBOL and Fortran languages,

Walter Isaacson

#7. Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.

Ken Thompson

#8. FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.

Alan Perlis

#9. Real programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.

Tom Van Vleck

#10. Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.

Marvin Minsky

#11. FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.

Edsger Dijkstra

#12. If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases

Guy Steele

#13. We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world ... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia.

Woodrow Wilson

#14. Occasionally, we are given a reminder of how precious a gift it is to understand the plan of salvation.

John Bytheway

#15. Quit fighting the sails and let the wind move the boat-drift on faith for a while.

Lisa Wingate

#16. Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.

Denis Waitley

#17. Before the Memorial Cup final, Gord Wasden - the father of one of the Medicine Hat Tigers - stood

Malcolm Gladwell

#18. I just don't want you to feel that way, because I love you. I'm in love with you. Forever and ever, and all the corny things I can attach to that.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#19. In the Episcopal Church I find a healthy sense of unity and diversity. In this tradition we recognize that that which holds the church together is more important than that which divides the church.

Robert E. Webber

#20. He looks like a man who has nits and worms at the same time.

Mark Lawrenson

#21. Good men never tell the truth. The good taught you false shores and false securities: you were born and kept in the lies of the good. Everything has been distorted and twisted down to its very bottom through the good

Friedrich Nietzsche

#22. I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland.

Renny Harlin