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• Any more than three shakes is fun.
• Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable.
  Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable. -- Gilb...
• It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do.
  It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work...
• A distributed system is one that stops you from getting any work done when a machine you've never even heard of crashes.
  -- Leslie Lamport (Attributed)...
• Ping O' Death n. A notorious exploit that (when first discovered) could be easily used to crash a wide variety of machines by overunning size limits in their TCP/IP stacks.
  First revealed in late 1996. The open-source Unix community patched its systems to remove the vulnerability within days or weeks, the closed-source OS vendors generally took months....
• app /ap/ n. Short for `application program', as opposed to a systems program.
  Apps are what systems vendors are forever chasing developers to create for their environments so they can sell more boxes....
• app: /ap/ n. Short for `application program', as opposed to a systems program.
  Apps are what systems vendors are forever chasing developers to create for their environments so they can sell more boxes....
• Gilb's Laws of Unreliability 1) Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable.
  Corollary: At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer....