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• cargo cult programming n. A style of (incompetent) programming dominated by ritual inclusion of code or program structures that serve no real purpose.
  A cargo cult programmer will usually explain the extra code as a way of working around some bug encountered in the past, but usually neither the bug nor the reason the code apparently avoided the bug was ever fully understood (compare shotgun debugging, voodoo pr The term `cargo cult' is a reference to aboriginal religions that grew up in the South Pacific after World War II....
• cargo cult programming: n. A style of (incompetent) programming dominated by ritual inclusion of code or program structures that serve no real purpose.
  A cargo cult programmer will usually explain the extra code as a way of working around some bug encountered in the past, but usually neither the bug nor the reason the code apparently avoided the bug was ever fully understood (compare {shotgun debugging}, {voodoo programming})....
• The only way to have real success in science, the field I'm familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without regard to the way you feel it should be.
  If you have a theory, you must try to explain what's good and what's bad about it equally....
• If it is so simple that it could not baffle even a fool, you will be completely fooled and totally baffled.
  After all, you are a Zerro reader!...
• Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
  -- Richard P. Feynma...
• A real friend is a person who, when you've made a fool of yourself, lets you forget it.
• You are what you are and little can be gained by making a fool of yourself trying to be someone else, someone you are not.
  Be true to yourself....
• Arthur's Second Law of Love: The love letter you finally got the courage to send will be dalayed in the mail long enough for you to make a fool of yourself in person.
• You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can make a fool of yourself anytime.