108. Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
(!?) Simpler times, indeed.
He means when each criticizes each one's own program.
It would be better to see a page linking these epigrams back to Perlis' fuller expositions of the idea, where such exist (I believe they do in most cases).
This is really great :) Also, if you're like me, adding `p { text-align: left; }` to the CSS makes this much more readable.
Old but gold, and serves a perfect succinct illustration in many cases, a bit like xkcd.