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• HAKMEM /hak'mem/ n. MIT AI Memo 239 (February 1972).
  A legendary collection of neat mathematical and programming hacks contributed by many people at MIT and elsewhere....
• A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to.
  -- Russell Bake...
• Less than one ounce of anti-matter here is more powerful than ten thousand cobalt bombs.
  Let's hope it's as powerful as man will ever get. -- Ensign Garrovick and Kirk, "Obsession," stardate 3620....
• To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow. -- Erik Nuppone
• No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States.
  Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency....
• The number one cause of computer problems is computer solutions.
• Governments should focus more on solving the immediate problems of today rather than trying to solve the anticipated problems of the future.
• Outlawing drugs in order to solve drug problems is much like outlawing sex in order to win the war against AIDS.
  -- Ronald Sigel...
• brute force adj. Describes a primitive programming style
  one in which the programmer relies on the computer's processing power instead of using his or her own intelligence to simplify the problem, often ignoring problems of scale and applying naive methods suited to small problems directly to large ones....