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• You are fixed in your opinions and will not be easily moved from your purpose.
• A man can drown and do it easily in a stream whose average depth is a mere seven inches.
• curtation n. The enforced compression of a string in the fixed-length field environment.
  The problem of fitting extremely variable-length strings such as names, addresses, and item descriptions into fixed-length records is no trivial matter....
• When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?' -- Don Marqui
• When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter," And proved it,--'t was no matter what he said.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto xi, Stanza 1...
• SMOP /S-M-O-P/ n. [Simple (or Small) Matter of Programming] 1.
  A piece of code, not yet written, whose anticipated length is significantly greater than its complexity....
• SMOP: /S-M-O-P/ [Simple (or Small) Matter of Programming] n.
  1. A piece of code, not yet written, whose anticipated length is significantly greater than its complexity....
• I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.
  -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, The Author's Preface...
• Feature: a desirable attribute of a program. Bug: an undesireable attribute of a program to be fixed in the near future.
  Beature: an undesireable attribute of a program which will not be fixed no matter how hard you beg....