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• dirtball n. [XEROX PARC] A small, perhaps struggling outside
  ot in the major or even the minor leagues. For example, "Xerox is not a dirtball company"....
• COMPUTER: An electronic entity which performs sequences of useful steps in a totally understandable, rigorously logical manner.
  If you believe this, see me about a bridge I have for sale in Manhattan....
• Governments must ensure that their major cities receive the financial support they need in order to thrive
  because it is primarily in cities that a nation's cultural traditions are preserved and generated....
• It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
  -- James D. Watso...
• dirtball: [XEROX PARC] n. A small, perhaps struggling outside
  not in the major or even the minor leagues. For example, "Xerox is not a dirtball company"....
• People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
  -- Anne Sulliva...
• My message is not that biological determinists were bad scientists or even that they were always wrong.
  Rather, I believe that science must be understood as a social phenomenon, a gutsy, human enterprise, not the work of robots programmed to collect pure information....
• boot v.,n. [techspeak; from `by one's bootstraps'] To load and initialize the operating system on a machine.
  This usage is no longer jargon (having passed into techspeak) but has given rise to some derivatives that are still jargon....
• WAITS:: /wayts/ n. The mutant cousin of {{TOPS-10}} used on a handful of systems at {{SAIL}} up to 1990.
  There was never an `official' expansion of WAITS (the name itself having been arrived at by a rather sideways process), but it was frequently glossed as `West-coast Alternative to ITS'....