"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." - Computer Networks, 3rd ed., p. 83. (paraphrasing Dr. Warren Jackson, Director, University of Toronto Computing Services (UTCS) circa 1985) via https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum
I also remember one from Silberschatz's OS textbook about Deadlock that mentioned an old law which said that whenever two trains approached an intersection, they both had to come to a full stop and none could move until the other one had left.
