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• The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.
• The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good and difficult for them to do evil.
  -- Gladstone (paraphrased)...
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• The project engineer will change the design to suit the state-of-the-art.
• The engineer's first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is.
• There are two ways of constructing a software desig
  One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies....
• Jaffe's Precept: There are some things that are impossible to know -- but it is impossible to know what these things are.
• Quote #4 The princicples of modularity, simplicity, or orthogonality, insofar as they contribute to overall simplicity, are an excellent means to an end
  but as a substitute for simplicity they are very questionable....
• ap door n. (alt. `trapdoor') 1. Syn. back door -- a Bad Thing.
  2. [techspeak] A `trap-door function' is one which is easy to compute but very difficult to compute the inverse of....