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• The first time, it's a KLUDGE! The second, a trick.
  Later, it's a well-established technique! -- Mike Broido, Intermetric...
• A technique is a trick that works. -- Gian-Carlo Rota
• The old gun-in-the-KAOS-agent's-sphincter trick. That's the second time I've fallen for that this month.
  -- Maxwell Sma...
• foo /foo/ 1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp.
  programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples....
• Anxiety, n.: The first time you can't do it a second time.
  Panic, n.: The second time you can't do it the first time....
• As long as we're going to reinvent the wheel again, we might as well try making it round this time.
  -- Mike Denniso...
• Bart: Your micro-jerks attacked me! Lisa: Well, you practically destroyed their whole world.
  Bart: You can't protect them every second. Sooner or later, you'll let your guard down, and then flush...