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St. Patrick's Almanack - 1993 Edition


From time to time in this column we have printed a collection of aphorisms
under the title of St. Patrick's Almanack. In opposition to a revised liturgy
that celebrates National Engineers' Week in February, the most orthodox
of Celts and Southern Gentlemen hold that the only proper time for this rite
falls on the Ides+2 of March, the birthday of that patron saint of engineers.
In honor of this august occasion, in answer to many requests, and with the
help of the saintly Patrick Skelly of Honeywell, who has diligently studied
and compared the most ancient and accepted manuscripts, we herewith present
a more complete, collected, and authentic compilation of lore.  ERIN GO BRAGH!
		(Preface to the 1980 Edition)



"It is not observed that logicians are more logical men than others."
	paraphrased from R. W. Emerson by Skelly

"You can't inhibit an open wire."
	E. Schmidt, 1970

"Buy an off-the-shelf power supply, and you buy off-the-shelf problems."
	E. Li-Or, 1969

"Today's alchemists believe in glass discs, Perceptrons, photoscopic
stores, and Project Mac."
	H. R. J. Grosch, 1967

"There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has
stopped asking questions."
	C. P. Steinmetz

"The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the questions."
	Samuel Karlin, 1983

"In spite of the recent progress in science, the depths of human
imbecility have not yet been plumbed."
	H. Ellis

"Computers help us to compute, but they do not assist us in thinking;
what is desperately needed is an electronic device that will provide the
mind with clarity and depth rather than with speed, with a summation of
proper ends more than a tabulation of feasible means."
	Sydney J. Harris, 1984

"Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets
and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that
information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom,
and wisdom is not foresight.  Each grows out of the other
and we need them all."
	Arthur C. Clarke

"Bit by bit computers are learning to program their users."
	Alfred R. Fregly, 1986

"Calling these interfaces [user] friendly is tantamount to dressing a
chimpanzee in a surgical gown and parading him around earnestly as
a surgeon."
	Mike Dertouzos, 1997

"...I do wish to propound one principle which is, so to speak, a kind of
Occam's Electric Razor: We should not invoke any entities or forces to
explain mental phenomena if we can achieve an explanation in terms of
a possible electronic computer."
	Maurice George Kendall, 1966

"It's what people know that ain't so that makes the trouble in this world."
	E. H. Armstrong

"It's not what you know, it's who you know to go ask..."
                                        - Richard W. Hamming

"We now possess the power, tools, and the opportunity to create computerized
chaos of a magnitude never before possible."
	Leonard Kleinrock, Computerworld, 20 Jan 1986

"Old programs do not learn; they simply fade away."
	Herbert A. Simon

"One picture is worth a thousand reels of tape."
	B. N. Fraizer, 1968

"There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that
any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and interesting
is a manifestation of deficient scholarship.  This is the fortress
behind which the minimally coherent regularly find refuge."
	J. K. Galbraith, 1987.

"Greyhound Computer operates Turing machines."
	Datamation, 1969

"Automation is being developed but the question remains as to
whether the automation relieves workload or increases it."
	Dr. Michael Bagshaw, London, 1996

"Automation hasn't cut out red tape.  It merely perforated it."
	Sidney J. Harris

"You'd think it's a conspiracy by the networks to put bad shows on TV. But
the shows are there because that's what people want. I think people are
happy using Windows, and that's an extremely depressing thought."
	Steve Jobs, 1996

"Unless the specification states otherwise, we must assume that circuit
delay varies in accord with changes in supply voltage, ambient
temperature, time, and the Dow-Jones index."
	J.H. Haynes, 1968

"A fool and his NORs are soon parted."
	H. W. Miller, 1968

"It is impossible to make things foolproof because fools are so ingenious."
	Uwe Sch"urkamp, 1991

"The laws of physics, as we understand them, are statistical laws.  They
have a lot to do with the natural tendency of things to go over into
disorder."
	anon. [Project MAC]

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making
exciting discoveries."
	A.A. Milne

"The trapdoors to failure outnumber the shortcuts to success."
	L. B. Johnson [?]

"If you have real-world problems - you get a couple of 1108s
back-to-back; you don't put your money in ILLIAC IV."
	H. R. J. Grosch, 1967

"If your boss calls tomorrow, do you want me to find out his name?"
	L. Briski (General Electric Computer Dept., 1968)

"Subtlety is the art of saying what you think, and getting out of
the way before it is understood."
	anon.

"Compatible designs are based upon compatible goals agreed to by
compatible people."
	A. R. Wilde, 1967

"I've finally learned what 'upward compatible' means.  It means we get
to keep all our old mistakes."
	Dennie van Tassel

"The [VAX-11/] 785 is bug-for-bug compatible with the 780."
	anon., reported by D. M. Martindale, 1984

"Remember, the best ideas originate in the U.S.; other people have to
think and talk in a foreign language.  This gives you a tremendous
technical edge."
	B. S. Benson, 1957

"You cannot fix a bug you do not know about."
	E. W. Dijkstra

"A feature is a bug with documentation."
	Wm. E. Davidsen, 1990

"In other words...their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by
their superficial design flaws."
	Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm
not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."
	anon.

"Time sharing is the junk mail part of the computer business."
	H. R. J. Grosch, 1967

"Logical methods, at best, rearrange the way in which personal bias
is to be introduced into the problem."
	anon. [Project MAC]

"To the systems programmer, the customers and users serve only to
provide a test load."
	P. DesJardins, 1969

"Planned testing is a source of anecdotes, not data."
	Harlan Mills, by way of David Parnas

"For every complex problem there is a simple solution - that won't work."
	H. L. Mencken

"Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge."
	W. S. Churchill

"There are two ways of constructing a software design:  One
way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no
deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated
that there are no obvious deficiencies.  The first method is
far more difficult."
                C.A.R. Hoare

"TOMORROW HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO INCORRECT JCL"
	Brian Converse

"An engineer is someone who does list processing in FORTRAN."
	V. Michael Powers, Naval Postgraduate School

"The scientist describes what is: the engineer creates what never was."
	Theodor von Karman

"I don't know what the [programming] language of the year 2000
will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran."
	Tony Hoare (or maybe Alan Perlis - statement has been
	attributed to several eminent computer scientists)

"When someone says, 'I want a programming language in which I need
only say what I wish done,' give him a lollipop."
	Alan Perlis, Epigrams on Programming, ACM Sigplan Notices,
	17(9), pp 7-13, 1982.

"I would counsel you to dissuade (as I always do ...) your friend from
making an Engineer of his son - starvation is quite as plentiful as with
any other profession..."
	I. K. Brunel to Chas. Babbage

"Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they
translate into their own language and forthwith it is something
entirely different."
	Goethe

"Maybe Computer Science should be in the College of Theology."
	R. S. Barton, 1967

"A computer scientist is someone who, when told to 'Go to Hell,' sees the
'go to,' rather than the destination, as harmful."
	Roger M. Firestone

"For the man who has everything ... Penicillin."
	F. Borquin, 1971

"One of the chiefest triumphs of modern mathematics consists in
having discovered what mathematics really is."
	Bertrand Russell, 1901

"And he who is versed in the science of numbers can tell of the
regions of weight and measure, but he cannot conduct you thither."
	K. Gibran

"I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and
express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot
express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory
kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in
your thoughts, advanced to the stage of Science, whatever the matter may
be."
	Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)


"The primary purpose of the Data statement is to give names
to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793
at every appearance, the variable Pi can be given that value
with a Data statement and used instead of the longer form of
the constant.  This also simplifies modifying the program,
should the value of pi change."
	Fortran manual for Xerox Computers

"Symbolic Logic has been disowned by many logicians on the plea that
its interest is mathematical, and by many mathematicians on the plea
that its interest is logical."
	Alfred North Whitehead, 1898

"Mathematicians practice absolute freedom."
	Henry Adams, 1910

"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make
empty prophecies.  The danger already exists that mathematicians have made
a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds
of Hell"
	St. Augustine, quoted by Donald W. Robinson

"Hell must be isothermal; for otherwise the resident engineers and
physical chemists (of which there must be some) could set up a heat
engine to run a refrigerator to cool off a portion of their
surroundings to any desired temperature."
	Henry Albert Bent, "The Second Law"
		quoted in Atlantic Monthly, Sept. 1985

"The Analytical Engine weaves Algebraical patterns just as the
Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves."
	Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace

"...if it should ever turn out that the basic logics of a machine designed
for the numerical solution of differential equations coincide with the logics
of a machine intended to make bills for a department store, I would regard
this as the most amazing coincidence that I have ever encountered."
	Howard Aiken, 1956
"The clothes have no emperor."
	C. A. Hoare, about Ada [the language, not the Countess].

"There are only two ways open to man for attaining a certain
knowledge of truth: clear intuition and necessary deduction."
	Descartes

"If and only if you can prove 'P if and only if Q', Q is called a
necessary and sufficient condition for P."
	M. Hassett, 1971
"In which level of metalanguage are you now speaking?"
	P. Skelly, 1971

"In science, theory guides practice - that is, improves technology.
In the arts, theory comes after the fact of original creation and,
far from improving future work, usually spoils it..."
	Jacques Barzun, 1984

"To iterate is human; to recurse, divine."
	L. Peter Deutsch

"The timing between the first and last detected bit of a character
is nominally ... less than 425 uin."
	ANSI-X3B1, 1969

"Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult."
	R. S. Barton, 1967

"****GO DOES NOT EXIST BUT HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE DATA SET"
	I.B.M.

"The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go
to erase it."
	Glaser & Way, '72 FJCC

"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal if you don't have
any thumbs."
	paraphrased from Tom Lehrer
"Counting in binary is just like counting in decimal if you are all thumbs."
	Glaser & Way, op. cit.

"We don't really understand it, so we'll give it to the programmers."
	ibid.

McClure: "Confession is good for the soul - "
d'Agapeyeff: " - but bad for your career."
	Software Engineering, NATO, 1969

Bauer: "The concept seems to be clear by now.  It has been defined several
times by examples of what it is not."
	ibid.

Opler: "How many errors should be we prepared to accept in a system
containing one million instructions?"
Perlis: "Seven!"
	Software Engineering, NATO, 1970

Perlis: "Some principles: every interesting program has at least one
variable, one branch, and one loop..."
Strachey: "... and at least one bug!"
	ibid.

"APL is a write-only language. (I can write programs in APL, but I
can't read them.)"
	Roy Keir, Univ. of Utah, 1973

"... costware ..."
	Joel Trimble, O.N.R., 1973

"The road to Hell is paved with NAND gates."
	J. Gooding, 1968

"Don't sweat it - it's only ones and zeroes."
	P. Skelly, 1964

"If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign
that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for
thinking as you do.  Whenver you find yourself getting angry about a
difference of opinion, be on your guard;  you will probably find, on
examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants."

		Bertrand Russell, in _An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish_

J.H.: "If this is time-sharing, give me my share right now."
D.R.: "It's not time yet."

"There's no man page yet.  Fortunately, none of the command-line
options work yet, so there's no need for a man page."
	Salvatore Valenti, MIT, 1977

"May all your PUSHes be POPped."
	Old Irish blessing, contributed by F. Holsworth, 1979

"Stack pointer equals base pointer; your sins are forgiven."
	Gill Pratt, MIT, 1997

"Rockwell calculators
 Really are a treat
 With big green digits
 And little rubber feet."
	Singing commercial heard on radio, circa 1977

The Computer Science Cheer:
	SHIFT TO THE LEFT,
	SHIFT TO THE RIGHT,
	MASK IN, MASK OUT,
	BYTE, BYTE, BYTE!!!!
		David Smith, UC Sandy Eggo

"No problem is so formidable that you can't just walk away from it."
	Charlie Brown (C. Schulz)

"On a clear disk you can seek forever."
	Jeff Mischkinsky

"... He also noted the significance of RCA's copying only the underprivileged
instructions [of System/360] ..."
	Lauren D'Attilo, Datamation, 1985

"Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know."
	J. Winter Smith

"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count.  A cynic believes
the long run doesn't matter.  A realist believes that what is done or
left undone in the short run determines the long run."
	Sydney J. Harris

"In most cases the light at the end of the tunnel is just the headlight
of an oncoming train."
	Craig Werner, 1989

"Politics is just a branch of Animal Husbandry."
	M. Kirk McKusick, 1989

"One good thing about reduced instruction set computers is that the
definition of the underlying concept keeps changing.  Consequently the
concept will always be state of the art."
	Yale Patt, 1991

Vonada's Engineering Maxims

	1.  There is no such thing as ground.
	2.  Digital circuits are made from analog parts.
	3.  Prototype designs always work.
	4.  Asserted timing conditions are designed first; unasserted
		timing conditions are found later.
	5.  When all but one wire in a group of wires switch, that one
		will switch also.
	6.  When all but one gate in a module switches, that one will
		switch also.
	7.  Every little pico farad has a nano henry all its own.
	8.  Capacitors convert voltage glitches to current glitches
		(conservation of energy).
	9.  Interconnecting wires are probably transmission lines.
	10.  Synchronizing circuits may take forever to make a decision.
	11.  Worst-case tolerances never add - but when they do, they are
		found in the best customer's machine.
	12.  Diagnostics are highly efficient in finding solved problems.
	13.  Processing systems are only partially tested since it is
		impractical to simulate all possible machine states.
	14.  Murphy's Laws apply 95 percent of the time.  The other 5
		percent of the time is a coffee break.
	Don Vonada, Digital Equipment Corp., quoted in Computer Engineering
	by Bell, Mudge, & McNamara, 1978

"They make miniature tubes and miniature loudspeakers, but they have yet
to come up with a miniature 32-foot wavelength."
	Paul Klipsch, circa 1955

"You can now buy more gates with less pages of specifications
than at any other time in history."
	Kenneth Parker, Hewlett-Packard, 1979

"It is my heart-warm and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration
that all of us - the high, the low, the rich , the poor, the admired,
the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage - may
eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and
peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the telephone."
	Mark Twain, 1890

"Amdahl and the Night Visitors" - a Christmas production by a Silicon
Valley theater group (noted by Herb Caen)

"I see some wires that are missing!"
	Bruce Fraizer, 1968

"Once we had fabricated the chip, we found that we had invented
a `Jump Approximate' instruction."
	Bill Dally, M.I.T. 1988
	(contributed by J. T. Kohl)

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.  Therefore all progress
depends on the unreasonable man."
	Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists
	(contributed by A. R. Wilde)

"Algol 68 is the Everest that must be climbed by every computer
scientist because it is there."
	F. L. Bauer

"ALGOL68 - that's Overextended Algol..."
	Tony Hoare, quoted in Silicon Gulch Gazette, vol. 5 no. 2

"Bit stomping is a sign of professional cretinism."
	Roger Vossler, 1979

"At Digital we didn't like to have all our eggs in one basket.  It was more
like 'If you see a basket, put an egg in it.'"
	C. Gordon Bell, 1997

"The Second Law of Thermodynamics: If you think things are in a mess now,
just wait!"
	Jim Warner

"Things are going to get worse before they get a lot worse."
	Herb Caen, San Francisco Chronicle

"Do something small and useful NOW."
	R. W. Bemer

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word
was God."
	New Testament, John 1:1
"In the beginning was the word all right, but it didn't contain a fixed
number of bits."
	R. S. Barton

"Learn what not to do from the experience of others.  It's cheaper
than your own."
	J. Winter Smith

"Good judgement comes from experience.  Experience comes from
bad judgement."
	Jim Horning, quoted in Silicon Gulch Gazette, Vol 5 No 2

"Whenever anyone says 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'"
	David Parnas, ibid.

"Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new
wing to a building as being maintenance."
	Jim Horning, ibid.

"A large number of installed systems work by fiat.  That is, they work by
being declared to work."
	Anatol Holt, ibid.

"If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, then the
first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization."
	[Alvin (?)] Weinberg, quoted by Robert D. Bliss
	attributed to anonymous ATM graffiti by Bryan Kocher, CACM, 1989

"... oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial
challenge roughly comparable to herding cats."
	The Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985

"Machines should work; people should think."
	I.B.M.

"Work like hell.  Tell everyone everything you know.  Close a deal
 with a handshake.  And have fun."
	"Doc" Edgerton

"Whenever we meet with any defect in the means we are contriving for
the accomplishing a given object, that defect should be noted and reserved
for future consideration, and inquiry should be made whether that which
is a defect as regards the object in view may not become a source of
advantage in some totally different subject."
	Chas. Babbage

"Kludge: an ill-assorted collection of poorly-matching parts, forming a
distressing whole."
	Jackson Granholm, 1962

"If anyone anything lacks
"He'll find it all ready, in stacks
	Gilbert & Sullivan

"Automaton, automaton
How stately thy transitions."
(sung to the tune of O Tannenbaum)

"All the other wonderful inventions of the human brain sink pretty nearly
into commonplaces contrasted with this awful mechanical miracle.
Telephones, telegraphs, locomotives, cotton-gins, sewing-machines, Babbage
calculators, Jacquard looms, perfecting presses, all mere toys,
simplicities!"
	Mark Twain, 1889 (writing about the Paige typesetter)

"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
	Thomas Edison

"Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later."
	F. P. Brooks, Jr.

"The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers."
	R. W. Hamming
"The purpose of computing numbers is not yet in sight."
	George E. Forsythe

"People can be divided into two classes: those who believe that people can
be divided into two classes, and those who do not."
	Herb Caen, San Francisco Chronicle

"When the cat's away, the mice will be rats!"
	Bill Lill, Teletype

"If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so
simple we couldn't."
	Lyall Watson

"A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."
	Grace Hopper

"No one ever managed men into battle."
	Grace Hopper, quoted by Hugh Nibley in "Leadership versus Management"

"When problems come to Washington they do not get solved, they get
bigger."
	LtGen J. W. Stansberry, USAF

"If it is true that words have meanings, why don't we throw away
the words and keep just the meanings?"
	Ludwig Wittgenstein via Anatol Holt

"Conservation of Elegance law: Inefficiency at one level breeds kludges
at the next level."
	David Cheriton

"[data] Representation is the essence of programming."
	F. P. Brooks, Jr.

"Practitioners explore; theorists pave over."
	Butler Lampson

"If we do not laugh at absurd attitudes, then we are tacitly
acquiescing to the validity of the foundation of those attitudes."
	The Snowman

"If we believe absurdities we shall commit atrocities."
	Radhakrishnan

"I never ruled Russia.  Ten thousand clerks ruled Russia."
	Czar Alexander

"So far the main impact of the computer has been the creation of
unlimited employment opportunities for clerks."
	Peter Drucker, 1969

"... do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the
unnecessary three times as fast."
	ibid.

"In former times it took dozens of clerks, secretaries, and administrators
to create a bureaucratic milieu capable of diffusing responsibility for
misinformation and disservices.  Today thanks to desk-top information
processors, small firms and agencies down to the neighborhood hardware
store are finding it possible to emulate the bureaucratic style by
blaming their disservices on their computer."
	Marvin Harris, "America Now:...", 1981

"The one thing the Barings episode illustrates is that the productivity for
making losses has gone up very significantly in the last 25 years.  You
couldn't write the execution slips fast enough 25 years ago to lose as much
money as was lost by one individual, aided by terrific technology."
	Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve,
		quoted in *The New York Times*, 6 March 1995.

"In complex systems, malfunction and even total nonfunction may not be
detectable for long periods, if ever."
	John Gall, Systemantics

"Any large system is going to be operating most of the time in failure
mode."
	ibid.

"When a fail-safe system fails, it fails by failing to fail safe."
	ibid.

"Continued progress in hardware is not a friend, but our nemesis.  We
have been shielded by hardware advances from confronting our own
incompetence as software profesiionals."
	Larry L. Constantine, March 2001

"Tektronix is very big on 3-letter acronyms; or, as we call them, 'TLAs' ."
	;login: Jan 1982

"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.  If your ideas are any good,
you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
	Howard Aiken
		quoted by Ken Iverson
			quoted by Jim Horning, 1979

"There is not a perfectly sane man in San Francisco."
	John Muir

"One of the marks of a genuinely educated person is that he respects
the knowledge of others, even if he has not been so fortunate as to
acquire it himself."
	Edward L. Hart

"network: anything reticulated or decussated, at equal distances,
with interstices between the intersections"
	Dictionary of Samuel Johnson

"Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he
is sure to find an easy way of doing it."
	paraphrased from Walter P. Chrysler

"...only by considering an individual's behavior in the space
can we validate the design."
	Clovis Heimsath in "Behavioral Architecture"
	quoted by Andy and Peter Pressman

"Programming - the skill (not an art nor a science) of intentional premature
binding.  The best programmers are those who can best make proper decisions
too early."
	B. A. Creech, 1969

"The mark of good coding is not that the program does what you want,
it's that it _also_ does something that you didn't start out wanting."
	Linus Torvalds, 1997

"Beward of the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
	Donald Knuth

"It is the capacity for maintenance which is the best test for the vigor and
stamina of a society.  Any society can be galvanized for a while to build
something, but the will and the skill to keep things in good repair day in,
day out are fairly rare."
	Eric Hoffer

"...ya can talk all ya wanna but it's differnt than it was."
"No it ain't, but ya gotta know the territory."
	Meredith Willson, The Music Man

"That was then, this is now."
	title of a book by S. E. Hinton

"The future isn't what it used to be."
	Arthur C. Clarke

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
	Alan Kay

"Life is SO non-linear."
	graffiti

"It's easier to apologize than to get permission."
	Grace Hopper

"Very compelling is the evidence that our most serious problems are not
brought about by the failures of our society, but by its successes."
	Carl Rogers

"I Am. You Woz."
	Gene Amdahl, to Steve Wozniak (reported by Herb Caen)

"Unfortunately the present generation of mail programs do not have
checkers to see if the sender knows what he is talking about."
	A. S. Tanenbaum

"X.400 was designed by people who really didn't want to
communicate with each other in the first place."
	Michael J. O'Connor


"...xntp is gaining a disconcertingly large following, with the result
that the legal beagles are circling to scent-mark the stuff."
	Dave Mills, 1992

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
			Isaac Asimov

"When these packets get discarded and flop out of the router and lay
there breathing their last, I talk to them and I ask if they've ever
heard of the IETF.  They've never even heard of it."
	Chuck Davin, PSINet, 1997

			Appendix
	Textual References for St. Patrick's Sermons

(If he could read at all, which has been questioned, St. Patrick probably
used the Vulgate, but these are quoted from the more accessible King James
Version.)

On pushdown automata and stack architectures: Matt. 20:16
	"So the last shall be first, and the first last:..."

On redundant coding for the binary symmetric channel: Matt. 5:37
	"But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever
	is more than these cometh of evil."

On memory allocation strategy to prevent thrashing in multiuser systems:
Matt. 25:29
	"For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have
	abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that
	which he hath."