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- Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
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- "I'd love to go out with you, but I never go out on days that end in
- `Y.'"
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- Speaking of love, one problem that recurs more and more frequently
- these days, in books and plays and movies, is the inability of people
- to communicate with the people they love; Husbands and wives who can't
- communicate, children who can't communicate with their parents, and so
- on. And the characters in these books and plays and so on (and in real
- life, I might add) spend hours bemoaning the fact that they can't
- communicate. I feel that if a person can't communicate, the very _____least
- he can do is to Shut Up!
- -- Tom Lehrer, "That Was the Year that Was"
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- Osborn's Law:
- Variables won't; constants aren't.
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- Know thyself. If you need help, call the C.I.A.
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- Mad, adj.:
- Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence ...
- -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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- How do you explain school to a higher intelligence?
- -- Elliot, "E.T."
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- The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to
- constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every
- appearance, the variable PI can be given that value with a DATA
- statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This
- also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.
- -- FORTRAN manual for Xerox Computers
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- It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct
- one.
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- Mophobia, n.:
- Fear of being verbally abused by a Mississippian.
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