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Linux Computers:  85 of 1023

An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
                -- D.E. Knuth
 
Linux Computers:  86 of 1023

... 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 with 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
 
Linux Computers:  87 of 1023

An elephant is a mouse with an operating system.
 
Linux Computers:  88 of 1023

An engineer is someone who does list processing in FORTRAN.
 
Linux Computers:  89 of 1023

An interpretation _I satisfies a sentence in the table language if and only if
each entry in the table designates the value of the function designated by the
function constant in the upper-left corner applied to the objects designated
by the corresponding row and column labels.
                -- Genesereth & Nilsson, "Logical foundations of Artificial
                   Intelligence"
 
Linux Computers:  90 of 1023

And it should be the law: If you use the word `paradigm' without knowing
what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail.  No exceptions.
                -- David Jones
 
Linux Computers:  91 of 1023

And on the seventh day, He exited from append mode.
 
Linux Computers:  92 of 1023

Another megabytes the dust.
 
Linux Computers:  93 of 1023

Any given program will expand to fill available memory.
 
Linux Computers:  94 of 1023

Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
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