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• Quote #21 One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
  -- Robert Firth...
• one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
  -- Robert Firth...
• One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
  -- Robert Firth...
• In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
  -- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) -- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776), Chap. xlviii...
• All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance.
  -- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) -- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776), Chap. lxxi...
• Amiable weaknesses of human nature. -- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) -- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776), Chap.
  xiv...
• Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
  -- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) -- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776), Chap. xlix...
• Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive. -- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) -- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776), Chap.
  xi...