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• Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself -- and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.
  -- Eric Allman ... We make rope. -- Rob Gingell on Sun Microsystem's new virtual memory....
• A conservative sees a man drowning fifty feet from shore.
  The conservative throws the man a rope 25 feet long and tells the man to start swimming, all the while wondering where he is going to send the bill for the 25 feet of rope used in this effort....
• Give a man enough rope, he'll hang himself. Teach a man to make rope, he'll hang other people.
• When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on, and swing!
• Anywhere you hang yourself is home. -- Henry Rolli
• Ever negotiate with lawyers at a huge company? If they saw you drowning 100 feet from the shore, they'd through you a 51-foot rope and say they went more than halfway.
  -- Paul Somerson in 'PC Computing,' 1996...
• If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
  -- A. J. Liebling...