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• Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
  -- Lee Simonso...
• hundering herd problem Scheduler thrashing. This can happen under Unix when you have a number of processes that are waiting on a single event.
  When that event (a connection to the web server, say) happens, every process which could possibly handle the event is awakened....
• It is easier to spout wisdom and appear wise, after the event.
• Data: "Geordi, as a child, did you ever experience a traumatic event?
  LaForge: "You're wondering about Timothy?" Data: "Yes....
• But is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about?
  Chance alone has a message for us....We read its message much as gypsies read the images made by coffee grounds....
• Carol: "Starfleet has kept the peace for over a hundred years.
  I cannot and will not subscribe to your interpretation of this event!...
• Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Imitation of Horace, Book iii, Ode 29, Line 71...
• The ideal reasoner, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearing
  deduce from it not only the chain of events which led up to it but also the results which would follow from it....
• The following is a letter to the editor of the Atticus City newspaper.
  "Former Mayor Durant owes an apology to the city of Atticus....