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  It is bloated out of shape with vice-presidents and accountants....
• Abe: Why are you people avoiding me? Does my withered face remind you of the grim specter of Death?
  Homer: [pause] Yes, but there's more. [sits down on the couch] Dad, I love you, but -- [angry] you're a weird, sore-headed old crank and nobody likes you!...
• A weapon that comes down as still As snowflakes fall upon the sod
  But executes a freeman's will, As lightning does the will of God...
• Brief History Of Linux (#26) On the surface, Transmeta was a secretive startup that hired Linus Torvalds in 1996 as their Alpha Geek to help develop some kind of microprocessor.
  Linus, everyone found out later, was actually hired as part of a low-budget yet high-yield publicity stunt....
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• eighty-column mind n. [IBM] The sort said to be possessed by persons for whom the transition from punched card to tape was traumatic (nobody has dared tell them about disks yet).
  It is said that these people, including (according to an old joke) the founder of IBM, will be buried `face down, 9-edge first' (the 9-edge being the bottom of the card)....
• eighty-column mind: [IBM] n. The sort said to be possessed by persons for whom the transition from {punched card} to tape was traumatic (nobody has dared tell them about disks yet).
  It is said that these people, including (according to an old joke) the founder of IBM, will be buried `face down, 9-edge first' (the 9-edge being the bottom of the card)....
• Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
  -- James Baldwin, "Nobody Knows My Name" 1961...
• Who is wise? He who learns from everyone. Who is powerful?
  He who governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content....