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• pretty pictures n. [scientific computation] The next step up from numbers.
  Interesting graphical output from a program that may not have any sensible relationship to the system the program is intended to model....
• 0303 Can you program in Basic? 0304 ... Do you admit it? -- from THE HACKER TEST
• For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- The Brook...
• I am astounded ... at the wonderful power you have developed - and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever.
  -- Arthur Sullivan, -- on seeing a demonstration of Edison's new talking machine in 1888...
• Fame may be fleeting but obscurity is forever.
• pretty pictures: n. [scientific computation] The next step up from {numbers}.
  Interesting graphical output from a program that may not have any sensible relationship to the system the program is intended to model....
• May you live forever with a beautiful wife, a rose garden, and music, and have the eyes, nose, and ears of a stone.
• A lot of software developers are seduced by the old "80/20" rule.
  It seems to make a lot of sense: 80% of the people use 20% of the features....
• You think you're God!" "Well, I gotta model myself after somebody!" -- Woody Allen, "Manhatta