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No plain fanfold paper could hold that fractal Puff --
He grew so fast no plotting pack could shrink him far enough.
Compiles and simulations grew so quickly tame
And swapped out all their data space when Puff pushed his stack frame.
CHORUS:
Puff the fractal dragon was written in C,
And frolicked while processes switched in mainframe memory.
Puff the fractal dragon was written in C,
And frolicked while processes switched in mainframe memory.
Puff, he grew so quickly, while others moved like snails
And mini-Puffs would perch themselves on his gigantic tail.
All the student hackers loved that fractal Puff
But DCS did not like Puff, and finally said, "Enough!"
(chorus)
Puff used more resources than DCS could spare.
The operator killed Puff's job -- he didn't seem to care.
A gloom fell on the hackers; it seemed to be the end,
But Puff trapped the exception, and grew from naught again!
(chorus)
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No problem is so formidable that you can't just walk away from it.
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No problem is so large it can't be fit in somewhere.
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"No proper program contains an indication which as an operator-applied
occurrence identifies an operator-defining occurrence which as an
indication-applied occurrence identifies an indication-defining
occurrence different from the one identified by the given indication as
an indication-applied occurrence."
-- ALGOL 68 Report
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"No self-respecting fish would want to be wrapped in that kind of
paper."
-- Mike Royko on the Chicago Sun-Times after it was
taken over by Rupert Murdoch
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing
it.
-- Tallulah Bankhead
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NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION
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Nobody said computers were going to be polite.
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Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in
order for presidents to make wars, for governments to feed on the
substance of their people, for insurance companies to cheat the young
and rob the old.
-- Lewis Lapham
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Nobody wants constructive criticism. It's all we can do to put up with
constructive praise.
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