Jurgen Neukirch quotes
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“Tests showed cancer of the larynx and the doctor advised an operation immediately. I was informed that my larynx had to be removed completely. I heard about Dr Breuss and went to see him....he prescribed the juice treatment....By the time I had completed this juice treatment I felt fit and once again had a good appetite. Despite my 72 years I felt my old self again.”
-- Jurgen Neukirch
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“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.”
Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.
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“One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.”
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