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Scott's first Law:
        No matter what goes wrong, it will probably look right.

Scott's second Law:
        When an error has been detected and corrected, it will be found
to have been wrong in the first place.

Corollary:
        After the correction has been found in error, it will be
impossible to fit the original quantity back into the equation.

Scotty: Captain, we din' can reference it!
Kirk:   Analysis, Mr. Spock?
Spock:  Captain, it doesn't appear in the symbol table.
Kirk:   Then it's of external origin?
Spock:  Affirmative.
Kirk:   Mr. Sulu, go to pass two.
Sulu:   Aye aye, sir, going to pass two.

Screw up your courage!  You've screwed up everything else.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the
Presidency.
                -- Richard Nixon

Second Law of Business Meetings:
        If there are two possible ways to spell a person's name, you
will pick the wrong one.

Corollary:
        If there is only one way to spell a name, you will spell it
wrong, anyway.

"Section 2.4.3.5   AWNS   (Acceptor Wait for New Cycle State).
        In AWNS the AH function indicates that it has received a
multiline message byte.
        In AWNS the RFD message must be sent false and the DAC message
must be sent passive true.
        The AH function must exit the AWNS and enter:
        (1)  The ANRS if DAV is false
        (2)  The AIDS if the ATN message is false and neither:
                (a)  The LADS is active
                (b)  Nor LACS is active"

                -- from the IEEE Standard Digital Interface for
                   Programmable Instrumentation

Security check: INTRUDER ALERT!

Seduced, shaggy Samson snored.
She scissored short.  Sorely shorn,
Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed,
Silently scheming,
Sightlessly seeking
Some savage, spectacular suicide.
                -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"

"See - the thing is - I'm an absolutist.  I mean, kind of ... in a way ..."