Heads up on Bell patents

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 Rule 1 of cryptanalysis: check for plaintext.
                -- Bob Morris, Crypto '95
 %
-Remember kids, the only difference between Science and screwing around is writing
-it down.
+Remember kids, the only difference between Science and screwing around is
+writing it down.
                -- Adam Savage
+%
+            THE PURPLE COW             Confession: and a Portrait, Too,
+Reflections on a Mythic Beast,             Upon a Background that I Rue!
+    Who's Quite Remarkable, at Least.
+                                       Ah, yes! I wrote the "Purple Cow"--
+I never saw a Purple Cow;                  I'm sorry, now, I wrote it!
+    I never hope to see one;           But I can tell you, anyhow,
+But I can tell you, anyhow,                I'll kill you if you quote it!
+    I'd rather see than be one.                                -- Gelett Burgess
+%
+Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we
+can perform without thinking about them.
+               -- Alfred North Whitehead, An Introduction to Mathematics (1911)
+%
+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