Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.