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• No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.
  -- Rorschach's only, fatal principle, from WATCHMEN...
• Even in 1956, when informed of his mother's brutal murder, he restricted his comments to one word
  `Good.' -- From the medical report on Rorschach. WATCHMEN #6...
• flag day n. A software change that is neither forward- nor backward-compatible, and which is costly to make and costly to reverse.
  Can we install that without causing a flag day for all users?...
• You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it.
  -- Rorschach, "Watchme...
• Technique?" said the programmer turning from his terminal, "What I follow is Tao -- beyond all technique!
  When I first began to program I would see before me the whole problem in one mass....
• YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.
  But yesterday I should have thought me blest To stand high-pinnacled upon the peak Of middle life and look adown the bleak And unfamiliar foreslope to the West, Where solemn shadows all the land invest And stilly voices, half-remembered, speak Unfinished prophecy, and witch-fires freak The haunted twilight of the Dark of Rest....
• Like a shadow from the tomb...
• On the other hand, the TCP camp also has a phrase for OSI people.
  There are lots of phrases. My favorite is `nitwit' -- and the rationale is the Internet philosophy has always been you have extremely bright, non-partisan researchers look at a topic, do world-class research, do several competing implementations, have a bake-off, determine what works best, write it down and make that the standard....
• Bob: You can't do this! I saved the children's lives, I'm a hero!
  Cecil: [craftily] Tell them they'll live to regret this....