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Jul 26, 2008

The primary function of the design engineer is to make...
The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.

The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names...
The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable PI can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also...

The problem with engineers is that they tend to cheat...
The problem with engineers is that they tend to cheat in order to get results. The problem with mathematicians is that they tend to work on toy problems in order to get results. The problem with program verifiers is that they tend to cheat at...

The problems of business administration in general,...
The problems of business administration in general, and database management in particular are much to difficult for people that think in IBMese, compounded with sloppy english. -- Edsger Dijkstra

The program isn't debugged until the last user is dead.
The program isn't debugged until the last user is dead.

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