In Computing, The Mean Time To Failure

Optimization Hinders Evolution. Everything Should Be Built Top-down, Except The First Time. Simplicity Does Not Precede Complexity, But Follows It.

One Man's Constant Is Another Man's Variable.

Often It Is The Means That Justify The Ends: Goals Advance Technique And Technique Survives Even When Goal Structures Crumble.

There Are Two Ways To Write Error-free Programs; Only The Third One Works.

In Man-machine Symbiosis, It Is Man Who Must Adjust: The Machines Can't.