Most memorable CS paper titles Following a fruitful question in MO, I thought it would be worthwhile to discuss some notable paper names in CS.

It is quite clear that most of us might be attracted to read (or at least glance at) a paper with an interesting title (at least I do so every time I go over a list of papers in a conference), or avoid reading poorly named articles.


  Which papers do you remember because of their titles (and, not-necessarily, the contents)?


My favorite, while not a proper TCS paper, is "The relational model is dead, SQL is dead, and I don’t feel so good myself." .
I did a survey on Twitter about this a while back, results here. A few of my favorites:


Parametric Polymorphism through Runtime Sealing, or, Theorems for Low, Low Prices! by
Jacob Matthews and Amal Ahmed, ESOP 2008 DOI:10.1007/978-3-540-78739-6_2
F-ing Modules by Andreas Rossberg, Claudio Russo, and Derek Dreyer, TLDI 2010
Cons should not cons its arguments and Cheney on the MTA, both by Henry Baker, SIGPLAN Notices 1992 and 1995. Baker has lots of other great paper titles, too.
How to Roll a Join: Asynchronous Incremental View Maintenance by Salem, Beyer, and Lindsay, SIGMOD 2000 DOI:10.1145/342009.335393
A Very Modal Model of a Modern, Major, General Type System by Appel, Mellies, Richards, and Vouillon, POPL 2007 DOI:10.1145/1190216.1190235
Clowns to the Left of me, Jokers to the Right, Conor McBride, POPL 2008 DOI:10.1145/1328438.1328474
Linear types can change the world!, Phil Wadler, Programming Concepts and Methods 1990 (note that the ! is signficant)