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• Digital computers are themselves more complex than most things people build
  They have very large numbers of states. This makes conceiving, describing, and testing them hard....
• Real software engineers don't program in assembler. They become queasy at the very thought.
• One problem in dealing with bureaucrats is that it is very hard to tell malice from incompetence.
• The human spirit is a very hard thing to kill. Even with a chainsaw.
• You work very hard. Don't try to think as well.
• Everything was fine until they invented four-letter word
  WORK HARD WORK VERY HARD WORK...
• The job of the engineer is to produce systems that people can trust.
  By this standard, there exist very few software engineers....
• Quote #126 "Software is like Entropy: it's hard to grasp, weighs nothing and obeys the Second Law of Thermodynamics, i.
  e. it always increases" -- Norman Augustine...