If you like this, you'll also like Wiio's laws: https://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/wiio.html

The part of the loss of information at each transformation reminds me of http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html (~compiler correctness)

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.