Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.