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• Peter's Inversion Internal consistency is valued more highly than efficiency.
• Internal consistency is valued more highly than efficiency.
  -- Peter's Inversion -- Dr. Laurence J. Pete...
• Aesthetics are more important than efficiency.
• Efficiency is a highly developed form of laziness. -- Leeman's observatio
• People's attitudes are determined more by their immediate situation or surroundings than by any internal characteristic.
• More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than any other single reason - including blind stupidity.
  -- Bill Wulf...
• Consistency is always easier to defend than correctness. -- Air Force Inertia Axiom
• Air Force Inertia Axiom: Consistency is always easier to defend than correctness.
• An enterprise employing more than 1000 people becomes a self-perpetuating empire, creating so much internal work that it no longer needs any contact with the outside world.
  -- Parkinson's Law of 1000...