Mis Used But Well Meant

To prepare BuzzGroups? and a FishBowl at ObjectTechnologyTwoThousand, I am collecting misunderstood or misused statements like

GotoConsideredHarmful (EwDijkstra)

EverythingIsAnObject (AlanKay)

Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming (CarHoare) -- usually quoted without the last two words, and mistakenly attributed to DonaldKnuth

Waterfall

Transparencies in distributed programming.

DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork


Please add to this list -- Thanks -- MartineDevos


Software objects model the things in the problem space


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