“You can tell how far we have to go, when FORTRAN is the language of supercomputers." — Steven Feiner.
"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." — Dijkstra, circa 1970.
"FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular." — Ken Thompson, "Reflections on Trusting Trust"
"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." — Dijkstra (1930—2002).
"Consistently separating words by spaces became a general custom about the tenth century A.D., and lasted until about 1957, when FORTRAN abandoned the practice." — Sun FORTRAN Reference Manual
"FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed — it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer." — Alan J. Perlis.
"You can create bad Fortran in any language." —?
“I don't know what the programming language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called FORTRAN.” — Dijkstra
“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” - Picasso
From: http://www.csl.mtu.edu/cs5311.ck/www/quote.html and https://www.gdargaud.net/Humor/QuotesProgramming.html