To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.
Belief is no substitute for arithmetic.
Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better.
C++ is the best example of second-system effect since OS/360.
A bit of tolerance is worth a megabyte of flamming.
Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.