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• Quote #580 Even a committee of two gets in the way of redesign.
  This happens particularly in the interfaces between pieces of software written by two different people....
• Cruickshank's Law of Committees: If a committee is allowed to discuss a bad idea long enough
  it will inevitably decide to implement the idea simply because so much work has already been done on it....
• A committee is twelve men doing the work of one. -- Kennedy's Comment on Committee
• Kennedy's Comment on Committees: A committee is twelve men doing the work of one.
• Quote #581 People who do good work often think that whatever they're working on is no good.
  Others see what they've done and are full of wonder, but the creator is full of worry....
• Quote #578 I think part of the reason people in big companies like object-oriented programming is because it yields a lot of what looks like work.
  Something that might naturally be represented as, say, a list of integers, can now be represented as a class with all kinds of scaffolding and hustle and bustle....
• Quote #655 Object-oriented programming is popular in big companies, because it suits the way they write software.
  At big companies, software tends to be written by large (and frequently changing) teams of mediocre programmers....
• The less you enjoy serving on committees, the more likely you are to be pressed to do so.
  (Explanation: If you do not like committees, you keep quiet, nod your head, and look wise while thinking of something else and thereby acquire the reputation of being a judicious and cooperative colleague...
• TeX /tekh/ n. An extremely powerful macro-based text formatter written by Donald E.
  Knuth, very popular in the computer-science community (it is good enough to have displaced Unix troff, the other favored formatter, even at many Unix installations)....