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In Ellen's house it is warm and toasty while fuzzies play in the snow outside.
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\a\a\a\a *** System shutdown message from root ***
System going down in 60 seconds
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Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub-systems and so on ad
infinitum -- which is why we're always starting over.
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"'Tis true, 'tis pity, and pity 'tis 'tis true."
-- Poloniouius, in Willie the Shake's _Hamlet, Prince of Darkness_
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"All the people are so happy now, their heads are caving in. I'm glad they
are a snowman with protective rubber skin"
"As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of
Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of
their Proverbs..." - Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
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HOW TO PROVE IT, PART 1
'The reader may easily supply the details'
'The other 253 cases are analogous'
'...'
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HOW TO PROVE IT, PART 3
proof by eminent authority:
'I saw Karp in the elevator and he said it was probably NP-
complete.'
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HOW TO PROVE IT, PART 4
proof by ghost reference:
Nothing even remotely resembling the cited theorem appears in
the reference given.
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HOW TO PROVE IT, PART 7
proof by forward reference:
Peter's Principle of Success:
Get up one time more than you're knocked down.
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Peterson's Admonition:
When you think you're going down for the third time --
[Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when
referring to system overview.]
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For there are moments when one can neither think nor feel. And if one can
neither think nor feel, she thought, where is one?
rats ever perform the required task.
But the technician does get to skin a
lot of rats, and he likes to hear them squeal.
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JESUS IS COMING!
Are you going to spit or swallow?