Reminds me of the classic laws of spacecraft design<p><a href="https://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html" rel="nofollow">https://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html</a>
> 11. If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.<p>Today this would be: If you have a program with ten libraries, you probably missed some.
"Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures"<p>Love it.
My favorite:<p>In theory there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice there is.<p>Benjamin Brewster
Yale Literary Magazine, February 1882