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Quote #373 "I Doubt You Can Find A Group That Has Never Been Killed In Large Numbers.
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"I doubt you can find a group that has never been killed in large numbers."
-- Peter Seebach, alt.folklore.computers
"System Administrators. And it is a real shame, BTW."
-- Marat Fayzullin, alt.folklore.computers
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-- Steven Levy...
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When in doubt, press [CTRL][ALT][DEL].
Quote #42 No one who has been a programmer can escape the conclusion that computers highlight our inability to communicate.
-- Mike Walsh (Infosystems, Nov 87 P. 43 ["Where the Rubber Meets the Road"])...
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If I had to sum up in one word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness.
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ecurity through obscurity (alt. `security by obscurity') A term applied by hackers to most OS vendors' favorite way of coping with security holes -- namely
ignoring them, documenting neither any known holes nor the underlying security algorithms, trusting that nobody will find out about them and that people who do find out about them won't exploit them....