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This ticket is solely for testing purposes.

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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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Above all else -- sky.

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Marriage, n.:
The evil aye.

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Spence's Admonition:
Never stow away on a kamikaze plane.

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Beware of the Turing Tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of
interest is easy.

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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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Your password is pitifully obvious.

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Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACs in 1 sq. cm.!

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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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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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"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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A hermit is a deserter from the army of humanity.

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There are two kinds of egotists: 1) Those who admit it 2) The rest of us

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The notion of a "record" is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column
card.
-- Dennis M. Ritchie

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Secretary's Revenge:
Filing almost everything under "the".

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... 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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The typical page layout program is nothing more than an electronic
light table for cutting and pasting documents.

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If Machiavelli were a hacker, he'd have worked for the CSSG.
-- Phil Lapsley

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We don't really understand it, so we'll give it to the programmers.

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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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13. ... r-q1

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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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If your aim in life is nothing, you can't miss.

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Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.

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Paranoia is heightened awareness.

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May the bluebird of happiness twiddle your bits.

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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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The important thing to remember about walking on eggs is not to hop.

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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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No user-servicable parts inside. Refer to qualified service personnel.