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• wheel of reincarnation [coined in a paper by T.
  H. Myer and I.E. Sutherland "On the Design of Display Processors", Comm....
• 1. Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable.
  2. The only difference between the fool, and the criminal who attacks a system is that the fool attacks unpredictably and on a broader front....
• When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.
  -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982...
• Real programmers don't write applications programs, they program right down to the BARE METAL.
  Applications programming is for feebs who can't do systems programming....
• Ninety-Ninety Rule n. "The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time.
  The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time....
• It is important to note that probably no large operating system using current design technology can withstand a determined and well-coordinated attack
  and that most such documented penetrations have been remarkably easy....
• The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatedly.
  -- "Programming Pearls", Communications of the ACM, Sep. 1985...