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• One person's data is another person's program. -- "Programming Pearls", Communications of the ACM, Sep.
  1985...
• Whenever possible, steal code. -- "Programming Pearls", Communications of the ACM, Sep. 1985
• One ostrich egg will serve 24 people for brunch. -- "Programming Pearls", Communications of the ACM, Sep.
  1985...
• The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatedly.
  -- "Programming Pearls", Communications of the ACM, Sep. 1985...
• The job's not over until the paperwork's done. -- "Programming Pearls", Communications of the ACM, Sep.
  1985...
• Testing can show the presence of bugs, but not their absence.
  -- "Programming Pearls", Communications of the ACM, Sep. 1985...
• The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components of a computer system are those that aren't there.
  -- "Programming Pearls", Communications of the ACM, Sep. 1985...
• The sooner you start to code, the longer the program will take.
  -- "Programming Pearls", Communications of the ACM, Sep. 1985...
• The structure of a system reflects the structure of the organization that built it.
  -- "Programming Pearls", Communications of the ACM, Sep. 1985...