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• The progress of science is often affected more by the frailties of humans and their institutions than by the limitations of scientific measuring devices.
  The scientific method is only as effective as the humans using it....
• Quote #485 "Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
  -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982...
• Quote #577 UNIX: measuring in inconvenient units since 57,974,400!
  -- slashdot .sig of Colin Baye...
• Bill Gates, have 'em write _real_ code...
• Quote #673 We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.
  -- W. Gate...
• Professor: No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it.
• Programming - like building a castle with toothpick
• Some programming languages manage to absorb change but withstand progress.