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• Real programmers never deliver programs on Wednesdays.
  Real programmers never deliver programs on the first day of any month....
• You never can factor in enough debugging time.
• Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can.
  -- Frank W. Woolworth...
• You cannot discover working programs. You can only discover them broken.
• Programmers do it right the first time!
• May all your programs work the first time.
• A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.
  ...A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work....
• Women's creed: Men are like linoleum. If you lay them right the first time, you can walk on them for 20 years.