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• He has half the deed done who has made a beginning. -- Horace
• If the devil doesn't exist, but man created him, he has created him in his own image.
  -- Dostoyevski...
• The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
  -- Clarence S. Darrow (1857-1938)...
• The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
  -- Clarence Darrow...
• infant mortality n. It is common lore among hackers (and in the electronics industry at large
  his term is possibly techspeak by now) that the chances of sudden hardware failure drop off exponentially with a machine's time since first use (that is, until the relatively distant time at which enough mechanical wear in I/O devices and thermal-cycling stress in components has accumulated for the machine to start going senile)....
• infant mortality: n. It is common lore among hackers (and in the electronics industry at large
  his term is possibly techspeak by now) that the chances of sudden hardware failure drop off exponentially with a machine's time since first use (that is, until the relatively distant time at which enough mechanical wear in I/O devices and thermal-cycling stress in components has accumulated for the machine to start going senile)....
• It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one's lifetime and expect to harvest a valuable crop in the second half.
  -- Percy Johnsto...
• You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough in the second half, you give what's left.
  -- Yogi Berra...