If the designers of X-window built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same principles -- but you'd be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature, that.
-- From the programming notebooks of a heretic, 1990.
@Weezimp that's nothing but the truth
Gerald Weinberg, that's "Weinberg's Second Law".
@matuzalem If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, then the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
(Can’t remember the source for that one)