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Do not allow this language (Ada) in its present state to be used in
applications where reliability is critical, i.e., nuclear power stations,
-cruise missiles, early warning systems, anti-ballistic missle defense
+cruise missiles, early warning systems, anti-ballistic missile defense
systems. The next rocket to go astray as a result of a programming language
error may not be an exploratory space rocket on a harmless trip to Venus:
It may be a nuclear warhead exploding over one of our cities. An unreliable
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.
- Brian Kernighan
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-Perfection is acheived only on the point of collapse.
+Perfection is achieved only on the point of collapse.
- C. N. Parkinson
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There you go man,
The control program manager had 150 men. He asserted that they could prepare
the specifications, with the architecture team coordinating; it would be
-well-done and practical, and he could do it on schedule. Futhermore, if
+well-done and practical, and he could do it on schedule. Furthermore, if
the architecture team did it, his 150 men would sit twiddling their thumbs
for ten months.
is and will always be a wild animal.
-- Charles Galton Darwin
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-Natural selection won't matter soon, not anywhere as much as concious
+Natural selection won't matter soon, not anywhere as much as conscious
selection. We will civilize and alter ourselves to suit our ideas of what we
can be. Within one more human lifespan, we will have changed ourselves
unrecognizably.
ears. I think he's weird because he wears false teeth...with braces on them.
-- Steven Wright
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-My brother sent me a postcard the other day with this big sattelite photo of
+My brother sent me a postcard the other day with this big satellite photo of
the entire earth on it. On the back it said: "Wish you were here".
-- Steven Wright
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pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only
by a change in our world view. We shall have to shift from the materialistic,
dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a
-new conciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the
+new consciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the
experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate
nature and all of creation.
- Dr. Albert Hoffman
influence our consciousness, the innermost essence of our being. The history
of LSD to date amply demonstrates the catastrophic consequences that can
ensue when its profound effect is misjudged and the substance is mistaken
-for a pleasure drug. Special internal and external advance preperations
+for a pleasure drug. Special internal and external advance preparations
are required; with them, an LSD experiment can become a meaningful
experience.
- Dr. Albert Hoffman, the discoverer of LSD
our doubts serve to reassure us.
- Jean-Pierre de Caussade, eighteenth-century Jesuit priest
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-Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurence of the
+Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the
improbable.
- H. L. Mencken
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become better people as a result of practicing it.
- Joe Mullally, computer salesman
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-Imitation is the sincerest form of plagarism.
+Imitation is the sincerest form of plagiarism.
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"Unibus timeout fatal trap program lost sorry"
- An error message printed by DEC's RSTS operating system for the PDP-11
outsiders who eventually overthrew entrenched scientific orthodoxies, but
they prevailed with irrefutable data. More often, egregious findings that
contradict well-established research turn out to be artifacts. I have
-argued that accepting psychic powers, reincarnation, "cosmic conciousness,"
+argued that accepting psychic powers, reincarnation, "cosmic consciousness,"
and the like, would entail fundamental revisions of the foundations of
neuroscience. Before abandoning materialist theories of mind that have paid
handsome dividends, we should insist on better evidence for psi phenomena
than presently exists, especially when neurology and psychology themselves
offer more plausible alternatives.
-- Barry L. Beyerstein, "The Brain and Conciousness: Implications for Psi
+- Barry L. Beyerstein, "The Brain and Consciousness: Implications for Psi
Phenomena", The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. XII No. 2, ppg. 163-171
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Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact.
problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to
a religious philosophy -- and it does not matter whether that philosophy
is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and
-irrational -- the powers of reason are suprisingly ineffective in
+irrational -- the powers of reason are surprisingly ineffective in
changing the believer's mind.
- Steve Allen, comdeian, from an essay in the book "The Courage of
Conviction", edited by Philip Berman
educative process is carried on in a predominantly democratic or non-
democratic way becomes, therefore, a question of transcendent importance
not only for education itself but for its final effect upon all the
-interests and activites of a society that is committed to the democratic
+interests and activities of a society that is committed to the democratic
way of life.
- John Dewey (1859-1953), American philosopher
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"There is such a fine line between genius and stupidity."
- David St. Hubbins, "Spinal Tap"
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-"If Diet Coke did not exist it would have been neccessary to invent it."
+"If Diet Coke did not exist it would have been necessary to invent it."
-- Karl Lehenbauer
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I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and by men who
-- Kendrick Frazier, "The Year in Science: An Overview," in
1988 Yearbook of Science and the Future, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
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-"jackpot: you may have an unneccessary change record"
+"jackpot: you may have an unnecessary change record"
-- message from "diff"
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"One lawyer can steal more than a hundred men with guns."
-- TV Guide, describing the Star Trek episode _Amok_Time_
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"Poor man... he was like an employee to me."
--- The police commisioner on "Sledge Hammer" laments the death of his bodyguard
+-- The police commissioner on "Sledge Hammer" laments the death of his
+bodyguard
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"Trust me. I know what I'm doing."
-- Sledge Hammer
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8) Use common sense in routing cable. Avoid wrapping coax around sources of
strong electric or magnetic fields. Do not wrap the cable around
- flourescent light ballasts or cyclotrons, for example.
+ fluorescent light ballasts or cyclotrons, for example.
-- Ethernet Headstart Product, Information and Installation Guide,
Bell Technologies, pg. 11
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backups: always in season, never out of style.
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-"There was a vague, unpleasant manginess about his appearence; he somehow
+"There was a vague, unpleasant manginess about his appearance; he somehow
seemed dirty, though a close glance showed him as carefully shaven as an
actor, and clad in immaculate linen."
-- H.L. Mencken, on the death of William Jennings Bryan
turf....But at the outer edges, this skepticism about science easily turns
into a kind of naive acceptance of nonscience, or even nonsense. The same
people who doubt experts can also believe any quackery, from the benefits of
-laetrile to eye of newt to the movment of planets. We lose the capacity to
+laetrile to eye of newt to the movement of planets. We lose the capacity to
make rational -- scientific -- judgments. It's all the same.
-- Ellen Goodman, The Boston Globe Newspaper Company-Washington Post Writers
Group
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"I turn on my television set. I see a young lady who goes under the guise
of being a Christian, known all over the nation, dressed in skin-tight
-leather pants, shaking and wiggling her hips to the beat and rythm of the
+leather pants, shaking and wiggling her hips to the beat and rhythm of the
music as the strobe lights beat their patterns across the stage and the
band plays the contemporary rock sound which cannot be differentiated from
songs by the Grateful Dead, the Beatles, or anyone else. And you may try
3) The TETflame flaming representatives include: Richard Sexton, Oleg
Kisalev, Diane Holt, Trish O'Tauma, Dave Hill, Greg Nowak and our most
- recent aquisition, Keith Doyle. But all he will do is put you in his
+ recent acquisition, Keith Doyle. But all he will do is put you in his
kill file. Weemba by special arrangement.
-- Richard Sexton
chosen mode of existence!"
-- Jim Morrison (morrisj@mist.cs.orst.edu)
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-"BYTE editors are men who seperate the wheat from the chaff, and then
+"BYTE editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then
print the chaff."
-- Lionel Hummel (uiucdcs!hummel), derived from a quote by Adlai Stevenson, Sr.
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-- Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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"If I ever get around to writing that language depompisifier, it will change
-almost all occurences of the word "paradigm" into "example" or "model."
+almost all occurrences of the word "paradigm" into "example" or "model."
-- Herbie Blashtfalt
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"Life, loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it."
Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just
to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't
be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending
-to be so outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't understand
-hat was going on, and really being genuinely stupid. He was reknowned for
-being quite clever and quite clearly was so -- but not all the time, which
-obviously worried him, hence the act. He preferred people to be puzzled
-rather than contemptuous. This above all appeared to Trillian to be
+to be so outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't
+understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid. He was
+renowned for being quite clever and quite clearly was so -- but not all the
+time, which obviously worried him, hence the act. He preferred people to be
+puzzled rather than contemptuous. This above all appeared to Trillian to be
genuinely stupid, but she could no longer be bothered to argue about.
-- Douglas Adams, _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_
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