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| | #3271 | | VMS must die!
| | | #3272 | | MS-DOS must die!
| | | #3273 | | OS/2 must die!
| | | #3274 | | Pournelle must die!
| | | #3275 | | Garbage In, Gospel Out
| | | #3276 | | "Being against torture ought to be sort of a multipartisan thing."
-- Karl Lehenbauer, as amended by Jeff Daiell, a Libertarian
| | | #3277 | | "Facts are stupid things."
-- President Ronald Reagan
(a blooper from his speeach at the '88 GOP convention)
| | | #3278 | | "The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science
collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke
miracles in order to compress the events of the earth's history into
the biblical span of a few thousand years; their unwillingness to
abandon claims clearly disproved, including the assertion that all
fossils are products of Noah's flood; and their reliance upon distortion,
misquote, half-quote, and citation out of context to characterize the
ideas of their opponents."
-- Stephen Jay Gould, "The Verdict on Creationism",
The Skeptical Inquirer, Winter 87/88, pg. 186
| | | #3279 | | "An ounce of prevention is worth a ton of code."
-- an anonymous programmer
| | | #3280 | | "To IBM, 'open' means there is a modicum of interoperability among some of their
equipment."
-- Harv Masterson
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