Love this, from the proceedings of the annual conference of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1975:

A SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CHRONOLOGY:

  1. WILD ENTHUSAISM
  2. FEVERISH ACTIVITY
  3. DISILLUSIONMENT
  4. TOTAL CONFUSION
  5. SEARCH FOR THE GUILTY
  6. PUNISHMENT OF THE INNOCENTS
  7. PROMOTION OF THE NON-PARTICIPANTS

(Via my dad; specific text via The Big Apple.)

Jasper Nighthawk @jaspernighthawk