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3rd Law of Computing:
Anything that can go wr
fortune: Segmentation violation -- Core dumped
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667:
The neighbor of the beast.
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Linux Definitions: 7 of 1105 |
A hypothetical paradox:
What would happen in a battle between an Enterprise security team,
who always get killed soon after appearing, and a squad of Imperial
Stormtroopers, who can't hit the broad side of a planet?
-- Tom Galloway
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Linux Definitions: 8 of 1105 |
A Law of Computer Programming:
Make it possible for programmers to write in English
and you will find that programmers cannot write in English.
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Linux Definitions: 9 of 1105 |
A musician, an artist, an architect:
the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.
-- William Blake
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Linux Definitions: 10 of 1105 |
A new koan:
If you have some ice cream, I will give it to you.
If you have no ice cream, I will take it away from you.
It is an ice cream koan.
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Linux Definitions: 11 of 1105 |
Abbott's Admonitions:
(1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know.
(2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.
-- Charles Abbot, dean, University of Virginia
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Linux Definitions: 12 of 1105 |
Absent, adj.:
Exposed to the attacks of friends and acquaintances; defamed; slandered.
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Linux Definitions: 13 of 1105 |
Absentee, n.:
A person with an income who has had the forethought to remove
himself from the sphere of exaction.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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Linux Definitions: 14 of 1105 |
Abstainer, n.:
A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a
pleasure.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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