Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off forever.
If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy.
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
Don't stop with your first draft.
Beyond 100,000 lines of code, you should probably be coding in Ada.
The stored-program digital computer has three major attributes: it is fast, it is accurate, and it is stupid. The first two attributes are often used to disguise the third.