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Wedding, n:
A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes
to become nothing and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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| Linux Definitions: 1067 of 1105 |
Weed's Axiom:
Never ask two questions in a business letter.
The reply will discuss the one in which you are
least interested and say nothing about the other.
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| Linux Definitions: 1068 of 1105 |
Weiler's Law:
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
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| Linux Definitions: 1069 of 1105 |
Weinberg's First Law:
Progress is only made on alternate Fridays.
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| Linux Definitions: 1070 of 1105 |
Weinberg's Principle:
An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while
sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
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| Linux Definitions: 1071 of 1105 |
Weinberg's Second Law:
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs,
then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
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| Linux Definitions: 1072 of 1105 |
Weiner's Law of Libraries:
There are no answers, only cross references.
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| Linux Definitions: 1073 of 1105 |
well-adjusted, adj.:
The ability to play bridge or golf as if they were games.
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| Linux Definitions: 1074 of 1105 |
Westheimer's Discovery:
A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a
couple of hours in the library.
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When asked the definition of "pi":
The Mathematician:
Pi is the number expressing the relationship between the
circumference of a circle and its diameter.
The Physicist:
Pi is 3.1415927, plus or minus 0.000000005.
The Engineer:
Pi is about 3.
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