Apparently Perlis devoted some time to making epigrams. I like #119 (and have amended it in line with #122 and recent developments in Canada, et al) : Programmi

Apparently Perlis devoted some time to making epigrams. I like #119 (and have amended it in line with #122 and recent developments in Canada, et al) : Programming is an unnatural act, but so far it is still mostly legal. https://web.archive.org/web/19990117034445/http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html https://web.archive.org/web/19990117034445/http://www-pu.inf... p.s. Actually applying Perlis's epigrams to epigrams, we inevitably reach the conclusion that epigrams stifle thought yet #125 still holds: #121 permits meta-epigrams. proposed: Epigrams optimize expression. #21: optimization hinders evolution q.e.d. epigrams stifle evolution of thought. [Alan Perlis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Perlis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Perlis]