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• The UNIX philosophy basically involves giving you enough rope to hang yourself.
  And then a couple of feet more, just to be sure....
• 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!
• The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground.
  It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon. -- Franz Kafka...
• Commandant: Next up ... Simp-son, Lis-a. [the crowd falls silent.
  The cadet leader plays, "Taps." Lisa climbs the ladder to the first platform, as the crowd begins jeering] Lisa...
• Some people wouldn't be happy if you hung them with a new rope!
• Quote #356 "Larry Wall should be shot. Along with Bill Joy and Eric Allman.
  -- Daniel Finster, comp.lang.lisp "Why, just because you guys frittered away a 20-year headstart?...