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#2531I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty,
you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to
yourself, "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well that would be enough
immortality for me.
#2532As seen on slashdot about what you can do with your cable modems:
(http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=32387&cid=3495418):

Summary: It's not about how you handle your equipment, it's where
you have permission to stick it.

The post is by "redgekko"
#2533"The biggest problem facing software engineering is the one it will
never solve - politics."
-- Gavin Baker, ca 1996, An unusually cynical moment inspired by working on a large
project beseiged by politics
#2534"Don't fear the pen. When in doubt, draw a pretty picture."
--Baker's Third Law of Design.
#2535Breakpoint 1, main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffc40) at main.c:29
29 printf ("Welcome to GNU Hell!n");
-- "GNU Libtool documentation"
#2536"You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are
now extinct."
- M. Somerset Maugham
#2537"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
- Bert Lantz
#2538"The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception a neccessity."
- Oscar Wilde
#2539"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
- Voltaire
#2540"IBM uses what I like to call the 'hole-in-the-ground technique'
to destroy the competition..... IBM digs a big HOLE in the
ground and covers it with leaves. It then puts a big POT
OF GOLD nearby. Then it gives the call, 'Hey, look at all
this gold, get over here fast.' As soon as the competitor
approaches the pot, he falls into the pit"
- John C. Dvorak
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