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• Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
• Everything should be built top-down, except this time.
• Quote #275 "Just as you should not underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon traveling 65 mph filled with 8mm tapes, you should not overestimate the bandwidth of FTP by mail.
  -- Mark Fishe...
• Quote #675 You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.
  -- C.A.R. Hoare...
• That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended, civilizations are built up, excellent institutions devised
  but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and then it all slides back into misery and ruin....