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If you throw a New Year's Party, the worst thing that you can do would
be to throw the kind of party where your guests wake up today, and call
-you to say they had a nice time. Now you'll be be expected to throw
+you to say they had a nice time. Now you'll be expected to throw
another party next year.
What you should do is throw the kind of party where your guest wake up
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Never leave a macassar and an antimacassar in the same room together.
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-Why did the furry install Unix? Because it supports catman(8).
+Why did the furry install Unix? Because it supports catman.
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Many people don't realize that trailhead doggerel is illegal -- but
surely you've heard of "hike rhymes and misdemeanors"...
I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter
than a season.
-- Josh Rosen
+%
+Computers for the brasses -- art for the masses.
+ -- J.C.R. Licklider
+%
+If, in your office, you as an intellectual worker were supplied with a
+computer display backed up by a computer that was alive for you all day, and
+that was instantly responsive to every action you had, how much value could
+you derive from that?
+ -- Douglas Engelbart, Fall Joint Computer Conference,
+ December 9th, 1968
+%
+They made me do it
+%
+It was the first thing that I formed a really powerful bond with.
+It was some sort of mental love missile and I just lit the touch paper and
+fired myself into it, at oblivious speed, and it exploded, and sparkled and it
+was totally beautiful.
+ -- Chris Packham and the kestrel
+%
+Austerity is the idea that the global financial crash of 2008 was caused by
+there being too many libraries in Wolverhampton.
+ -- Alexei Sayle
+%
+I wonder why. I wonder why.
+I wonder why I wonder.
+I wonder why I wonder why
+I wonder why I wonder!
+ -- Richard P. Feynman, "Always Trying to Escape"
+%
+Fanfare, n.:
+ The food available for consumption at a con.
+%
+Fail we may, sail we must
+%
+Don't shout at your JBODs, they don't like it!
+ -- Brendan Gregg, "Shouting in the Datacenter"
+%
+Bell has two patents on UNIX
+a) set-user-id bit
+b) on "typo" !
+ -- John Lions, Australian UNIX Users Group Newsletter, Oct 1978
+%
+The purpose of computing numbers is not yet in sight
+%
+Iamonthemoonandthereisnowheretogetabeer.
+Thereisnospacebar.