"In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so t…"

"As I said in my comments to the committee, [Fortran 90' would be a] nice language, too bad it's not Fortran."

"FORTRAN's tragic fate has been its wide acceptance, mentally chaining thousands and thousands of programmers to our p…"

"FORTRAN—the "infantile disorder"—, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer applica…"

"Recall the first American space probe to Venus, reportedly lost because Fortran cannot recognize a missing comma in a…"

"The determined Real Programmer can write FORTRAN programs in any language."

"People are very flexible and learn to adjust to strange surroundings — they can become accustomed to read Lisp and Fo…"

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

"95 percent of the people who programmed in the early years would never have done it without Fortran."

"Consistently separating words by spaces became a general custom about the tenth century A.D., and lasted until about …"