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• when fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer has been known to abandon the desktop for the more spacious floor.
  -- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr....
• econd-system effect n. (sometimes, more euphoniously
  `second-system syndrome') When one is designing the successor to a relatively small, elegant, and successful system, there is a tendency to become grandiose in one's success and design an elephantine feature-laden monstrosity....
• econd-system effect: n. (sometimes, more euphoniously
  `second-system syndrome') When one is designing the successor to a relatively small, elegant, and successful system, there is a tendency to become grandiose in one's success and design an {elephantine} feature-laden monstrosity....
• The so-called "desktop metaphor" of today's workstations is instead an "airplane-seat" metaphor.
  Anyone who has shuffled a lap full of papers while seated between two portly passengers will recognize the difference -- one can see only a very few things at once....
• It has long been known that one horse can run faster than another - but which one?
  Differences are crucial. -- Lazarus Long...
• 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....
• uperprogrammer: n. A prolific programmer; one who can code exceedingly well and quickly.
  Not all hackers are superprogrammers, but many are....
• uperprogrammer n. A prolific programmer; one who can code exceedingly well and quickly.
  Not all hackers are superprogrammers, but many are....