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• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you make a mathematical proof and try to compile it to test if it is correct.
• asal demons n. Recognized shorthand on the Usenet group comp.
  d.c for any unexpected behavior of a C compiler on encountering an undefined construct....
• There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.
  -- John von Neuma...
• Have you ever wondered why clouds behave in such familiar ways when each specimen is so unique?
  Or why the energy exchange market is so unpredictable?...
• asal demons: n. Recognized shorthand on the USENET group comp.
  d.c for any unexpected behavior of a C compiler on encountering an undefined construct....
• We wish to incorporate into the machine -- in the form of circuits -- only such logical concepts as are either necessary to have a complete system or highly convenient because of the frequency with which they occur and the influence they exert in the relevant mathematical situations.
  -- Burks, Goldstine, and von Neumann (1946) -- (from "Computer Structure...
• Try it. The most it can do is not work...
• Mark all Mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with other, how unapt to serve the world.
  -- Roger Ascham (ca. 1550)...
• There's no use being precise about something when you don't even know what you're talking about.
  -- John von Neuma...