Fortran

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

— Fortran

FORTRAN's tragic fate has been its wide acceptance, mentally chaining thousands and thousands of programmers to our past mistakes.

— Fortran

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.

— Fortran

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.

— Fortran

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

— Fortran

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

— Fortran

People are very flexible and learn to adjust to strange surroundings — they can become accustomed to read Lisp and Fortran programs, for example.

— Fortran

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

— Fortran