This was the last straw. After many years of seeing Alan Perlis's Oscar-Wilde-style epigrams about programming show up everywhere, I finally looked him up. I

This was the last straw. After many years of seeing Alan Perlis's Oscar-Wilde-style epigrams about programming show up everywhere, I finally looked him up. It turns out he published all those epigrams together in a single document in 1982: http://pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html http://pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html