[Arjen Markus] This page is intended to collect a few of the wise cracks, jokes and general evidence of wisdom among the regular and not-so-regular visitors of the [Tcl Chatroom]. ---- [AM] For starters, here are a few observations I came up with in July 2002 during a rather stressful day: Postulates on software engineering: '''Postulate 1:''' Old programming languages do not die. Motivation: the announcement of COBOL for Linux and .net (july 2002) '''Postulate 2:''' If you solve a bug and you do not understand why the solution solves it, then it will reincarnate. '''Corrolary 2.1 ([Miguel Sofer])''' The reincarnated bug will bite even harder. '''Postulate 3:''' There exists a Heisenberg-type uncertainty relation between software quality and the marketing volume