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SYSTEM-INDEPENDENT:
Works equally poorly on all systems.
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Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub-systems and so on ad
infinitum -- which is why we're always starting over.
-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982
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Systems programmer:
A person in sandals who has been in the elevator with the senior
vice president and is ultimately responsible for a phone call you
are to receive from your boss.
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Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult.
-- R.S. Barton
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T: One big monster, he called TROLL.
He don't rock, and he don't roll;
Drink no wine, and smoke no stogies.
He just Love To Eat Them Roguies.
-- The Roguelet's ABC
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TACKY:
Serving grape kool-aid at religious functions.
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TACT:
The unsaid part of what you're thinking.
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Tact consists in knowing how far to go in going too far.
-- Jean Cocteau
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
-- Jean Cocteau
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Tact is the ability to tell a man he has
an open mind when he has a hole in his head.
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