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Expand Up @@ -1106,13 +1106,6 @@ enormous amount of hard work. But, a certain amount of unpredictable
and often unrepeatable inspiration is what usually makes the difference
between adequacy and excellence.
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Creating computer software is always a demanding and painstaking
process -- an exercise in logic, clear expression, and almost fanatical
attention to detail. It requires intelligence, dedication, and an
enormous amount of hard work. But, a certain amount of unpredictable
and often unrepeatable inspiration is what usually makes the difference
between adequacy and excellence.
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%DCL-MEM-BAD, bad memory
VMS-F-PDGERS, pudding between the ears
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Expand Up @@ -94,10 +94,6 @@ The life of a repo man is always intense.
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If you're not careful, you're going to catch something.
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That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they
really hate is lousy programmers.
-- Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle in "Oath of Fealty"
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Wherever you go...There you are.
-- Buckaroo Banzai
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Do not underestimate the value of print statements for debugging.
Don't have aesthetic convulsions when using them, either.
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As the system comes up, the component builders will from time to time appear,
bearing hot new versions of their pieces -- faster, smaller, more complete,
or putatively less buggy. The replacement of a working component by a new
version requires the same systematic testing procedure that adding a new
component does, although it should require less time, for more complete and
efficient test cases will usually be available.
-- Frederick Brooks Jr., "The Mythical Man Month"
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Each team building another component has been using the most recent tested
version of the integrated system as a test bed for debugging its piece. Their
work will be set back by having that test bed change under them. Of course it
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The world is coming to an end--save your buffers!
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grep me no patterns and I'll tell you no lines.
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It is your destiny.
-- Darth Vader
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You need tender loving care once a week - so that I can slap you into shape.
-- Ellyn Mustard
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"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God but to
create him."
-Arthur C. Clarke
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"Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?"
-Ronald Reagan
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"There is nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things
we don't know yet."
-Ambrose Bierce
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The Middle East is certainly the nexus of turmoil for a long time to come --
with shifting players, but the same game: upheaval. I think we will be
confronting militant Islam -- particularly fallout from the Iranian
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dumb, and maybe even a little ugly on the side."
-- Frank Zappa
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"It's not just a computer -- it's your ass."
-- Cal Keegan
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"Let me guess, Ed. Pentescostal, right?"
-- Starcap'n Ra, ra@asuvax.asu.edu

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"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."
-- John Wooden
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#define BITCOUNT(x) (((BX_(x)+(BX_(x)>>4)) & 0x0F0F0F0F) % 255)
#define BX_(x) ((x) - (((x)>>1)&0x77777777) \
- (((x)>>2)&0x33333333) \
- (((x)>>3)&0x11111111))

-- really weird C code to count the number of bits in a word
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"If you can write a nation's stories, you needn't worry about who makes its
laws. Today, television tells most of the stories to most of the people
most of the time."
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other causes combined."
-- Fred Brooks, Jr., _The Mythical Man Month_
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panic: kernel trap (ignored)
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"Nuclear war can ruin your whole compile."
-- Karl Lehenbauer
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"Remember, extremism in the nondefense of moderation is not a virtue."
-- Peter Neumann, about usenet
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"If you can, help others. If you can't, at least don't hurt others."
-- the Dalai Lama
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To the systems programmer, users and applications serve only to provide a
test load.
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"Just think, with VLSI we can have 100 ENIACS on a chip!"
-- Alan Perlis
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It's always sad when the fleas leave, because that means your dog is dead.
-- Wesley T. Williams
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It's always sad when the fleas leave, because that means your dog is dead.
-- Wesley T. Williams
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You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common:
they don’t alter their views to fit the facts; they alter the facts to fit
their views.
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Expand Up @@ -824,12 +824,6 @@ Why do so many foods come packaged in plastic? It's quite uncanny.
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Why do they call a fast a fast, when it goes so slow?
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Without coffee he could not work, or at least he could not have worked in the
way he did. In addition to paper and pens, he took with him everywhere as an
indispensable article of equipment the coffee machine, which was no less
important to him than his table or his white robe.
-- Stefan Zweigs, Biography of Balzac
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Without ice cream, life and fame are meaningless.
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You can always tell the Christmas season is here when you start getting
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In which level of metalanguage are you now speaking?
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(null cookie; hope that's ok)
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Oatmeal raisin.
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Oreo.
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Expand Up @@ -778,8 +778,6 @@ God -- I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again.
Nirvana? That's the place where the powers that be and their friends hang out.
-- Zonker Harris
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NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!
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Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly
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<Mercury> emacs sucks, literally, not a insult, just a comment that its
large enough to have a noticeable gravitational pull...
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As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing.
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* Knghtbrd assigns 3 to Chris
* variable wonders who else is named chris besides me
<Knghtbrd> variable - you. =>
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If a 'train station' is where a train stops, what's a 'workstation'?
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Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
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"We don't do a new version to fix bugs." - Bill Gates
"The new version - it's not there to fix bugs." - Bill Gates
-- Retranslated from Focus 43/1995, pp. 206-212
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Debian is like Suse with yast turned off, just better. :)
-- Goswin Brederlow
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Arnold's Laws of Documentation:
(1) If it should exist, it doesn't.
(2) If it does exist, it's out of date.
(3) Only documentation for useless programs transcends the
first two laws.
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The truth is not free. It's that simple. If you change the truth, it is no
longer true - so the truth is not free!
-- Jules Bean about freeness of documentation
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<Joey> We still have rpm....
-- Seen on #Debian
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* JHM wonders what Joey did to earn "I'd just like to say, for the record,
that Joey rules."
-- Seen on #Debian
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The problem here (as someon else stated) is that when multiple dists
use the same package format it only gives a "false sense of compatibility".
-- Stephen Carpenter <sjc@delphi.com>
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[...]
-- Eduard Bloch <blade@debian.org> Sun, 28 Oct 2001 12:53:27 +0100
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<|ryan|> I don't use deb
<netgod> u poor man
<Disconnect> netgod: heh
<Kingsqueak> apt-get install task-p0rn
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Could somebody drag the Irix team kicking and screaming into the 1980's,
please?

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-- Henning Makholm in <yahsmr7dk9k.fsf@pc-043.diku.dk>
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I don't think 'It's better than hurling yourself into a meat grinder'
is a good rationale for doing something.
-- Andrew Suffield in
<20030905221055.GA22354@doc.ic.ac.uk> on debian-devel
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< Overfiend> whew.
< Overfiend> I really need to get some sleep.
< Overfiend> but it sure was fun talking guitars, politics, and lesbians.
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Why Eclipse doesn't belong to the "right" tools? My naive understanding is
that Eclipse is the Emacs of the 21st century – it is open source, customizable
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Expand Up @@ -163,9 +163,6 @@ By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
-- Mark Twain
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
-- Mark Twain
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Condense soup, not books!
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Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
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procession but carrying a banner.
-- Mark Twain
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The last thing one knows in constructing a work is what to put first.
-- Blaise Pascal
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The Least Perceptive Literary Critic
The most important critic in our field of study is Lord Halifax. A
most individual judge of poetry, he once invited Alexander Pope round to
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What I tell you three times is true.
-- Lewis Carroll
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What no spouse of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working
when he's staring out the window.
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When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
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For a young man, not yet: for an old man, never at all.
-- Diogenes, asked when a man should marry

When should a man marry? A young man, not yet; an elder man, not at all.
-- Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Marriage and Single Life"
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For a young man, not yet: for an old man, never at all.
-- Diogenes, asked when a man should marry

When should a man marry? A young man, not yet; an elder man, not at all.
-- Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Marriage and Single Life"
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burden of finding the fettucine restaurant in the first place.
-- Calvin Trillin
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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
-- Voltaire
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Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would
have preferred.
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Bare feet magnetize sharp metal objects so they point upward from the
floor -- especially in the dark.
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Batteries not included.
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BE ALERT!!!! (The world needs more lerts...)
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BE ALOOF! (There has been a recent population explosion of lerts.)
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Indecision is the true basis for flexibility.
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Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?
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Insomnia isn't anything to lose sleep over.
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Is death legally binding?
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Let he who takes the plunge remember to return it by Tuesday.
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Let me put it this way: today is going to be a learning experience.
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
-- Ovid (43 B.C. - A.D. 18)
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Microbiology Lab: Staph Only!
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
-- Jean Cocteau
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Moebius strippers never show you their back side.
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Moebius always does it on the same side.
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Predestination was doomed from the start.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future.
-- Niels Bohr
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Preserve the old, but know the new.
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Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.
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Save the Whales -- Harpoon a Honda.
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Save the whales. Collect the whole set.
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See, these two penguins walked into a bar, which was really stupid, 'cause
the second one should have seen it.
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Somehow, the world always affects you more than you affect it.
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Sometimes, too long is too long.
-- Joe Crowe
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
-- Carl Sagan
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plausible manner and a little literary ability. The capacity to steal
other people's ideas and phrases ... is also invaluable.
-- Nicolas Tomalin, "Stop the Press, I Want to Get On"
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The world really isn't any worse. It's just that the news coverage
is so much better.
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"Then you admit confirming not denying you ever said that?"
"NO! ... I mean Yes! WHAT?"
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The belief that when you die, your soul goes up
on the roof and gets stuck.
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God is real, unless declared integer.
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God is love
Love is blind
Ray Charles is blind
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A preacher's wife proofread his Sunday sermon and wrote next
to one paragraph: "Weak point--shout loud".
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If God is perfect, why did He create discontinuous functions?
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Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that
each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.
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that it sinks like a stone.
-- Dave Barry, "What is Electricity?"
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All extremists should be taken out and shot.
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Always run from a knife and rush a gun.
-- Jimmy Hoffa
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