Throwing one away

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In article <3000079 at uokvax.UUCP> emjej at uokvax.UUCP writes:
>
>/* Written 9:40 pm May 15, 1986 by Dave-Platt%LADC at HI-MULTICS.arpa in net.lang.c */
>I believe your "It has also been said..." can be attributed to Donald
>Knuth;  if I remember correctly, his original wording was "Plan on
>throwing one away, because you will anyhow."
>/* End of text from net.lang.c */
>
>Doubtless a flood of corrections will appear, but...it was Fred Brooks, in
>*The Mythical Man-Month*.  "Plan on throwing one away, because you will
>anyhow.  The only question is whether you will deliver the throwaway to
>your customers." is as near as I can reproduce it from memory.

1) The most famous reference is, of course, Fred Brooks.

2) However, I'd swear that Knuth, Volume 1, 1st Edition included
an anecdote that one of the best projects he'd been involved with was so
because all of the cards and listings accidentally got burned in the
middle of the project.  My Volume 1, 1st Edition disappeared long ago;
all have is Volume 1, Edition 2, and I've not been able to find this story.
	a) Can anybody who has Edition 1 find this?
	b) If not, does anybody have a definitive answer for where this
	story comes from [like: in article such-and-such, author X
	attributes this story to Knuth.]
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