I've yet to find the exact word to describe the enjoyment that an evening spent riffling through old pattern books can bring.
With diligence it is possible to make anything run slowly.
Shared libraries are the work of the devil, the one true sign that the apocalypse is at hand.
Whenever possible, steal code.
How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are 3. 155 x 10^7, you won't even try to remember it. On the other hand, who could forget that, to within half a percent, pi seconds is a nanocentury.
The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible].
Don't use hands to do things that can be efficiently done by the computer.
This isn't a particularly novel observation, but the world is full of people who think they can manipulate the lives of others merely by getting a law passed.
In the end, what you do isn't going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with.
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
I have always said to my pupils: "Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it when you are analyzing a dream. "