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• Performance: A statement of the speed at which a computer system works.
  Or rather, might work under certain circumstances....
• A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.
  ...A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work....
• Ever judge of men by their professions. For though the bright moment of promising is but a mome
  and cannot be prolonged, yet if sincere in its moment's extravagant goodness, why, trust it, and know the man by it, I say,--not by his performance...
• A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
  -- Hugh Dow...
• Contrary to rumor, working side by side with a group of fellow wizards is not the most unpleasant task in which a magician might participate.
  In fact, I can think of numerous other experiences, such as breaking both arms and legs while being pursued by a ravenous demon, which, under certain conditions, could conceivably be even worse....
• Computer: a million morons working at the speed of light. -- David Ferrie
• Affordable Virtual Beowulf Cluster Every nerd drools over Beowulf clusters, but very few have even seen one, much less own one.
  Until now, that is. Eric Gylgen, the open source hacker famous for EviL (the dancing ASCII paperclip add-on to vi), is working on a program that will emulate Beowulf clusters on a standard desktop PC....
• dink /dink/ adj. Said of a machine that has the bitty box nature
  a machine too small to be worth bothering wi sometimes the system you're currently forced to work on....
• dink: /dink/ adj. Said of a machine that has the {bitty box} nature
  a machine too small to be worth bothering with --- sometimes the system you're currently forced to work on....