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• The price of success in philosophy is triviality. -- C. Glymour.
• The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity. -- C. Hoare
• Quote #148 "C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success." -- Dennis M. Ritchie.
• compact adj. Of a design, describes the valuable property that it can all be apprehended at once in one's head.
  This generally means the thing created from the design can be used with greater facility and fewer errors than an equivalent tool that is not compact....
• compact: adj. Of a design, describes the valuable property that it can all be apprehended at once in one's head.
  This generally means the thing created from the design can be used with greater facility and fewer errors than an equivalent tool that is not compact....
• Asked what he gained from philosophy, he answered, "To do without being commanded what others do from fear of the laws.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristotle, xi...
• Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill
  hat we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty....
• Philosophy is nothing but discretion. -- John Selden (1584-1654) -- Philosophy
• Baby philosophy: If it stinks, change it.