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2 years ago Fortune
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter
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2 years ago Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter
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2 years ago Above all else -- sky.
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2 years ago Marriage, n.: The evil aye.
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2 years ago Spence's Admonition: Never stow away on a kamikaze plane.
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2 years ago Beware of the Turing Tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
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2 years ago From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached. -- F. Kafka
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2 years ago Your password is pitifully obvious.
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2 years ago Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACs in 1 sq. cm.!
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2 years ago I do hate sums. There is no greater mistake than to call arithmetic an exact science. There are permutations and aberrations discernible to minds entirely noble like mine; subtle variations which ordinary accountants fail to discover; hidden laws of number which it requires a mind like mine to perceive. For instance, if you add a sum from the bottom up, and then again from the top down, the result is always different. -- Mrs. La Touche
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2 years ago The notion that science does not concern itself with first causes -- that it leaves the field to theology or metaphysics, and confines itself to mere effects -- this notion has no support in the plain facts. If it could, science would explain the origin of life on earth at once--and there is every reason to believe that it will do so on some not too remote tomorrow. To argue that gaps in knowledge which will confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.... -- H. L. Mencken, 1930
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2 years ago "As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life -- so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls." -- Matt Cartmill
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2 years ago A hermit is a deserter from the army of humanity.
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2 years ago There are two kinds of egotists: 1) Those who admit it 2) The rest of us
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2 years ago The notion of a "record" is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card. -- Dennis M. Ritchie
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2 years ago Secretary's Revenge: Filing almost everything under "the".
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2 years ago ... an anecdote from IBM's Yorktown Heights Research Center. When a programmer used his new computer terminal, all was fine when he was sitting down, but he couldn't log in to the system when he was standing up. That behavior was 100 percent repeatable: he could always log in when sitting and never when standing.
Most of us just sit back and marvel at such a story; how could that terminal know whether the poor guy was sitting or standing? Good debuggers, though, know that there has to be a reason. Electrical theories are the easiest to hypothesize: was there a loose wire under the carpet, or problems with static electricity? But electrical problems are rarely consistently reproducible. An alert IBMer finally noticed that the problem was in the terminal's keyboard: the tops of two keys were switched. When the programmer was seated he was a touch typist and the problem went unnoticed, but when he stood he was led astray by hunting and pecking. -- "Programming Pearls" column, by Jon Bentley in CACM February 1985
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2 years ago The typical page layout program is nothing more than an electronic light table for cutting and pasting documents.
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2 years ago If Machiavelli were a hacker, he'd have worked for the CSSG. -- Phil Lapsley
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2 years ago We don't really understand it, so we'll give it to the programmers.
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2 years ago Rev. Jim: What does an amber light mean? Bobby: Slow down. Rev. Jim: What... does... an... amber... light... mean? Bobby: Slow down. Rev. Jim: What.... does.... an.... amber.... light....
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2 years ago The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. -- Robert Heinlein
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2 years ago If your aim in life is nothing, you can't miss.
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2 years ago Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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2 years ago Paranoia is heightened awareness.
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2 years ago May the bluebird of happiness twiddle your bits.
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2 years ago Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh? We are a company of ignorant beings, feeling our way through mists and darkness, learning only be incessantly repeated blunders, obtaining a glimmering of truth by falling into every conceivable error, dimly discerning light enough for our daily needs, but hopelessly differing whenever we attempt to describe the ultimate origin or end of our paths; and yet, when one of us ventures to declare that we don't know the map of the universe as well as the map of our infinitesimal parish, he is hooted, reviled, and perhaps told that he will be damned to all eternity for his faithlessness... -- Leslie Stephen, "An agnostic's Apology", Fortnightly Review, 1876
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2 years ago The important thing to remember about walking on eggs is not to hop.
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2 years ago What's this stuff about people being "released on their own recognizance"? Aren't we all out on our own recognizance?
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2 years ago No user-servicable parts inside. Refer to qualified service personnel.
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