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• Quote #552 Kirk's mind raced as he quickly assessed his situatio
  he shields were down, the warp drive and impulse engines were dead, life support was failing fast, and the Enterprise was plummeting out of control toward the surface of Epsilon VI and, as Scotty and Spock searched frantically through the manuals trying to find a way to save them all, Kirk vowed, as he stared at the solid blue image filling the main view screen, that never again would he allow a Microsoft operating system to control his ship....
• Guinan: "There can only be *one* captain." Riker: "It's not that simple.
  This was his crew, he wrote the book on this ship!...
• As a boy he dreamed of being a ship's captain, but gave it up when someone explained to him what sharks were .
  .." -- Woody Alle...
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• Terrell: "Listen, you men and women, you haven't--" Kha
  Captain, Captain, Cap..." [Laughs] "Save your strength, Captain....
• Tom: It's a lovely day for a launch, here, live at Cape Canaveral, at the lower end of the Florida Peninsula, and the purpose of today's mission is truly, really electrifying.
  Man 2: That's correct, Tom. The lion's share of this flight will be devoted to the study of the effects of weightlessness on tiny screws....
• yntactic salt n. The opposite of syntactic sugar, a feature designed to make it harder to write bad code.
  Specifically, syntactic salt is a hoop the programmer must jump through just to prove that he knows what's going on, rather than to express a program action....
• yntactic salt: n. The opposite of {syntactic sugar}, a feature designed to make it harder to write bad code.
  Specifically, syntactic salt is a hoop the programmer must jump through just to prove that he knows what's going on, rather than to express a program action....
• Real Programmer n. [indirectly, from the book "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche"] A particular sub-variety of hacke
  one possessed of a flippant attitude toward complexity that is arrogant even when justified by experience....