To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.