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• When you get right down to it, in the long run a short cut seldom is.
• Long may you run.
• Real software engineers don't like the idea of some inexplicable and greasy hardware several aisles away that may stop working at any moment.
  They have a great distrust of hardware people, and wish that systems could be virtual at *all* levels....
• Standards aren't standard. -- Weinberg's Programming Principle #1
• Software, hardware, -- is that you talking Sigmund?
• An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run does not matter.
  A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run....
• Hardware: The part you kick. Software: this you corrupt!