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• FLY PAPER -- a cardboard zipper.
• The garbage bag full of leaves or wrapping paper or cardboard boxes will never break.
  The garbage bag full of egg shells, coffee grounds, and potato salad will always break....
• In most societies, competition generally has more of a negative than a positive effect.
• Windows: An overpriced way to eat up large amounts of hard disk space.
• The following appeared as part of an article in a health magazine.
  "A new discovery warrants a drastic change in the diets of people living in the United States....
• Societies should try to save every plant and animal species, regardless of the expense to humans in effort, time, and financial well-being.
• DATABASE Developed in the early 1800's, by Rodney Database of Darlingto
  the database is a marvellously efficient way of putting large amounts of information into one central repository, never to be seen again....
• Pascal n. An Algol-descended language designed by Niklaus Wirth on the CDC 6600 around 1967-68 as an instructional tool for elementary programming.
  This language, designed primarily to keep students from shooting themselves in the foot and thus extremely restrictive from a general-purpose-programming point of view, was later promoted as a general-purpose tool and, in fact, became the ancestor of a large family of languages including Modula-2 and Ada (see also bondage-and-discipline l summed up by a devastating (and, in its deadpan way, screamingly funny) 1981 paper by Brian Kernighan (of K&...
• Societies will, of course, wish to exercise prudence in deciding which technologies -- that is, which applications of science -- are to be pursued and which not.
  But without funding basic research, without supporting the acquisition of knowledge for its own sake, our options become dangerously limited....