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In respect to lock-making, there can scarcely be such a thing as dishonesty
of intention: the inventor produces a lock which he honestly thinks will
possess such and such qualities; and he declares his belief to the world.
If others differ from him in opinion concerning those qualities, it is open
to them to say so; and the discussion, truthfully conducted, must lead to
public advantage: the discussion stimulates curiosity, and curiosity stimu-
lates invention. Nothing but a partial and limited view of the question
could lead to the opinion that harm can result: if there be harm, it will be
much more than counterbalanced by good."
-- Charles Tomlinson's Rudimentary Treatise on the Construction of Locks,
published around 1850.
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| Linux Cookie: 718 of 1140 |
"Wish not to seem, but to be, the best."
-- Aeschylus
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| Linux Cookie: 719 of 1140 |
"Survey says..."
-- Richard Dawson, weenie, on "Family Feud"
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| Linux Cookie: 720 of 1140 |
"Paul Lynde to block..."
-- a contestant on "Hollywood Squares"
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| Linux Cookie: 721 of 1140 |
"Little else matters than to write good code."
-- Karl Lehenbauer
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| Linux Cookie: 722 of 1140 |
To write good code is a worthy challenge, and a source of civilized delight.
-- stolen and paraphrased from William Safire
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| Linux Cookie: 723 of 1140 |
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward"
-- William E. Davidsen
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| Linux Cookie: 724 of 1140 |
"If a computer can't directly address all the RAM you can use, it's just a toy."
-- anonymous comp.sys.amiga posting, non-sequitir
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| Linux Cookie: 725 of 1140 |
"Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" he said to himself, and it became
a favourite saying of his later, and passed into a proverb. "You aren't nearly
through this adventure yet," he added, and that was pretty true as well.
-- Bilbo Baggins, "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien, Chapter XII
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| Linux Cookie: 726 of 1140 |
"A dirty mind is a joy forever."
-- Randy Kunkee
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