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ADA:
        Something you need only know the name of to be an Expert in
        Computing.  Useful in sentences like, "We had better develop
        an ADA awareness.
                -- "Datamation", January 15, 1984

ADA:
        Something you need to know the name of to be an Expert in Computing.
        Useful in sentences like, "We had better develop an ADA awareness."

ADA, n.:
        Something you need only know the name of to be an Expert in
Computing.  Useful in sentences like, "We had better develop an ADA
awareness."

Adde parvum parvo manus acervus erit.
[Add little to little and there will be a big pile.]
                -- Ovid

Adding features does not necessarily increase
functionality -- it just makes the manuals thicker.

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
                -- F. Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month"

Whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty by
close application thereto, it is worse execute by two persons and
scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
                -- George Washington, 1732-1799

Adding sound to movies would be like
putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
                -- actress Mary Pickford, 1925

Adhere to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done
something strange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a
decorous age.
                -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adler's Distinction:
        Language is all that separates us from the lower animals,
        and from the bureaucrats.

ADMIRATION:
        Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.