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• A Jewish Deduction The Bible dictates that "Thou shalt not seethe [= cook] a kid [= young goat] in his mother's milk.
  To avoid any possibility of breaking that regulation, the Jewish tradition ruled that it also applies to female goats, to mature goats, and to the meat and milk of two completely unrelated goats....
• On the other size of the door is a narrow passage which opens out into a larger area.
• Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. -- Lord Chesterfield (to his son)
• On the other hand, it is impossible for a cube to be written as a sum of two cubes or a fourth power to be written as a sum of two fourth powers o
  in general, for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers....
• There are two schools of thought on Nostradamus: either (1) he had supernatural powers which enabled him to prophesy the future with uncanny accuracy
  or (2) he did for bullshit what Stonehenge did for rocks. -- Cecil Adams, _The Straight Dope_...
• deadlock n. 1. [techspeak] A situation wherein two or more processes are unable to proceed because each is waiting for one of the others to do something.
  A common example is a program communicating to a server, which may find itself waiting for output from the server before sending anything more to it, while the server is similarly waiting for more input from the controlling program before outputting anything....
• deadlock: n. 1. [techspeak] A situation wherein two or more processes are unable to proceed because each is waiting for one of the others to do something.
  A common example is a program communicating to a server, which may find itself waiting for output from the server before sending anything more to it, while the server is similarly waiting for more input from the controlling program before outputting anything....
• Zero-One-Infinity Rule prov. "Allow none of foo, one of foo, or any number of foo.
  A rule of thumb for software design, which instructs one to not place random limits on the number of instances of a given entity (such a...
• What a change a few years makes. A kid who won't allow water to go above his wrists suddenly starts taking two showers each day, each of which lasts over a half hour.