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• The value of a program is proportional to the weight of its output.
  -- Laws of Computer Programming VI...
• If a program is useless, it will have to be documented. Laws of Computer Programming, IV
• Any given program, when running, is obsolete. Laws of Computer Programming, I
• If a program is useful, it will have to be changed. Laws of Computer Programming, III
• Any program will expand to fill available memory. Laws of Computer Programming, V
• Two teachers were out for a coke after Friday afternoon classes dismissed.
  Says one to the other, "If there is anything to this reincarnation business, I'd love to come back as a childhood disease....
• Never write it in C if you can do it in `awk'. (*) Never do it in `awk' if `sed' can handle it.
  (*) Never use `sed' when `tr' can do the job....
• IX. Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.
  -- Laws of Computer Programming...