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• Any given program will expand to fill available memory.
• memory leak n. An error in a program's dynamic-store allocation logic that causes it to fail to reclaim discarded memory, leading to eventual collapse due to memory exhaustion.
  Also (esp. at CMU) called core leak. These problems were severe on older machines with small, fixed-size address spaces, and special "leak detection" tools were commonly written to root them out....
• It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
• Quote #32 It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
• No job is too small to screw up!