Thanks for finally providing me with the source to this piece of wisdom that's been stuck in my head since I was a kid reading through some programming book I had. It's really stuck with me and I've been repeating it ever since, but I could never remember the attribution, just that I saw this quote in a book! I can't quite remember the book, but it was something like "Programming games with C++" and it came with a CD with a demo of Visual C++ 6.0 on it. Must have been around 2002-ish...