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

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Please add to this list -- Thanks -- MartineDevos
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Software objects model the ''things'' in the problem space