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• Always distrust offices not under your jurisdiction which say that they are there to serve you.
  Support" offices in a bureaucracy tend to grow in size and make demands on you out of proportion to their service and in the end require more effort on your part than their service is worth....
• Incompetents often hire able assistants. -- Douglas Evely
• Never use "etc." -- it makes people think there is more where there is not or that there is not space to list it all, etc.
• box n. 1. A computer; esp. in the construction `foo box' where foo is some functional qualifier, like `graphics', or the name of an OS (thus, `Unix box', `MS-DOS box', etc.
  ) "We preprocess the data on Unix boxes before handing it up to the mainframe....
• box: n. 1. A computer; esp. in the construction `foo box' where foo is some functional qualifier, like `graphics', or the name of an OS (thus, `UNIX box', `MS-DOS box', etc.
  ) "We preprocess the data on UNIX boxes before handing it up to the mainframe....
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say on the subject of towels.
  Most importantly, a towel has immense psychological value....