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• I hope she'll make you happy someday, said Martin, but I strongly doubt it.
  You're a bitter man, said Candide. That's because I've lived, said Martin....
• His philosophical works would have suited me better, but when I saw that he doubted everything, I concluded that I knew as much as he did, and that I didn't need anyone's help to be ignorant.
  -- from Candide, Voltaire...
• boat anchor n. [common; from ham radio] 1. Like doorstop but more severe
  implies that the offending hardware is irreversibly dead or useless....
• In this country [England] it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.
  -- Francis M. Voltaire (1694-1778) -- Candide, Chap. xxiii...
• bit-paired keyboard n.,obs. (alt. `bit-shift keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several years on early computer equipment.
  The ASR-33 was a mechanical device (see EOU), so the only way to generate the character codes from keystrokes was by some physical linkage....
• parity errors: pl.n. Little lapses of attention or (in more severe cases) consciousness, usually brought on by having spent all night and most of the next day hacking.
  I need to go home and crash; I'm starting to get a lot of parity errors....
• parity errors pl.n. Little lapses of attention or (in more severe cases) consciousness, usually brought on by having spent all night and most of the next day hacking.
  I need to go home and crash; I'm starting to get a lot of parity errors....
• curtation n. The enforced compression of a string in the fixed-length field environment.
  The problem of fitting extremely variable-length strings such as names, addresses, and item descriptions into fixed-length records is no trivial matter....
• The man has a photographic mind suffering from chronic and severe underdevelopment.