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• Real computer scientists don't program in assembler.
  They don't write in anything less portable than a number two pencil....
• Scientists who dislike the restraints of highly organized research like to remark that a truly great research worker needs only three pieces of equipme
  a pencil, a piece of paper, and a brain.... But they quote this maxim more often at academic banquets than at budget hearings....
• Real computer scientists only write specs for languages that might run on future hardware.
  Nobody trusts them to write specs for anything homo sapiens will ever be able to fit on a single planet....
• Real computer scientists don't write the user interface, they merely argue over what it should look like.
• There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
  -- Don Herold...