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If The Input Editor Has Been Designed To Reject All Bad Input, An Ingenious Idiot Will Discover A Method To Get Bad Data Past It.
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If the input editor has been designed to reject all bad input,
an ingenious idiot will discover a method to get bad data past it.
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If the input editor has been designed to reject all bad input, an ingenious idiot will discover a method to get bad data past it.
Troutman's Fifth Programming Postulate: If the input editor has been designed to reject all bad input, an ingenious idiot will discover a method to get bad data past it.
1) If a test installation functions perfectly, all subsequent systems will malfunction.
2) Not until a program has been in production for at least six months will the most harmful error be discovered....
Tasha Yar's specialty: Data input!
More input! More input!
Number 5: INPUT! INPUT! Need INPUT!...
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you begin all of your questions with "INPUT.
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ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president.
A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting....
filter n. [very common; orig. Unix, now also in MS-DOS] A program that processes an input data stream into an output data stream in some well-defined way
and does no I/O to anywhere else except possibly on error conditio...