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