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• Status is gained in the eyes of others, and in one's own eyes, because it is assumed that the importance of the work justifies the stress.
• The best rules to form a young man are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
  -- Sir William Temple...
• ecurity through obscurity (alt. `security by obscurity') A term applied by hackers to most OS vendors' favorite way of coping with security holes -- namely
  ignoring them, documenting neither any known holes nor the underlying security algorithms, trusting that nobody will find out about them and that people who do find out about them won't exploit them....
• Without freedom, no one really has a name. -- Milton Acorda
• Only by being forced to defend an idea against the doubts and contrasting views of others does one really discover the value of that idea.
• A fanatic is one who puts twice as much effort toward his goal than anyone else, and once having gotten started, forgets where it is that he was headed for with all that effort.
• Studies show that the average person has one testicle and one breast.
• It is better to sound a person with whom one deals afar off, than to fall upon the point at first.
  -- Fred Baco...
• N: /N/ quant. 1. A large and indeterminate number of objec
  "There were N bugs in that crock!" Also used in its original sense of a variable name...