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• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of purge.
• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of purge.
• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but management won't pay a penny for it.
  -- Weinberg's Programming Principle #5...
• An ounce of prevention is worth a ton of code. -- an anonymous programme
• Prevention is better than cure.
• Barney: [discovers the salad bar] Hey, what's this?
  Moe: A sneeze guard. Barney: [sneezes, spewing snot all over the sneeze guard] Wow, it really works!...
• Prevention of birth is precipitation of murder. -- Tertullian (180?-230?)