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• An armed society is a polite society. -- Robert A. Heinlein, 'The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress'
• TANSTAAFL /tan'stah-fl/ [acronym, from Robert Heinlein's classic "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".
  ] "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch", often invoked when someone is balking at the prospect of using an unpleasantly heavyweight technique, or at the poor quality of some piece of software, or at the signal-to-noise ratio of unmoderated Usenet newsgroups....
• TANSTAAFL: /tan'stah-fl/ [acronym, from Robert Heinlein's classic "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".
  ] "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch", often invoked when someone is balking at the prospect of using an unpleasantly {heavyweight} technique, or at the poor quality of some piece of free software, or at the {signal-to-noise ratio} of unmoderated USENET newsgroups....
• Electrons on a bende
• The misnaming of fields of study is so common as to lead to what might be general systems laws.
  For example, Frank Harary once suggested the law that any field that had the word science in its name was guaranteed thereby not to be a science....
• MISTRESS -- something between a mister and a mattress.