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• cycle 1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper described himself as a "cycle junkie").
  One can describe an instruction as taking so many `clock cycles'....
• cycle: 1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper describes himself as a "cycle junkie").
  One can describe an instruction as taking so many `clock cycles'....
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• 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....
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• The only thing faster than the computer is the weekend.
• The speed of time is one second per second.
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