Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.