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• The dossier is not the person. -- Dr. John Gall
• Systems display antics. -- Dr. John Gall
• New systems create new problems. -- Dr. John Gall
• Systems in general work very poorly or not at all. -- Dr. John Gall
• Systems tend to grow, and as they grow, they encroach. -- Dr. John Gall
• cooked mode n. [Unix, by opposition from raw mode] The normal character-input mode
  with interrupts enabled and with erase, kill and other special-character interpretations performed directly by the tty driver....
• cooked mode: [UNIX, by opposition with {raw mode}] n.
  The normal character-input mode, with interrupts enabled and with erase, kill and other special-character interpretations performed directly by the tty driver....
• Anergy-State: Any state of the Universe, or any portion of it, which requires the expenditure of human effort or ingenuity to bring it into line with human desires, needs, or pleasures.
  -- Dr. John Gall...
• aw mode n. A mode that allows a program to transfer bits directly to or from an I/O device (o
  under bogus operating systems that make a distinction, a disk file) without any processing, abstraction, or interpretation by the operating system....