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• Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling everything.
  -- Karl Lehenbaue...
• Programmers are expensive. Hardware is cheap. -- Karl Lehenbaue
• Weekends were made for programming. -- Karl Lehenbaue
• You know, I've never accidentally drilled a hole in myself while programming. -- Karl Lehenbaue
• Try it. The most it can do is not work...
• Real programmers do all their DTP work in DEBUG.
• voodoo programming: [from George Bush's "voodoo economics"] n.
  The use by guess or cookbook of an {obscure} or {hairy} system, feature, or algorithm that one does not truly understand....
• We have some absolutely irrefutable statistics to show exactly why you are so tired.
  There are not as many people actually working as you may have thought....
• Quote #357 I generally regard flipping through `popular' publications on technical subjects in the same category as consulting the faqs for various newsgroups or reading most annotated bibliographies.
  Or perhaps in the same vein as pornography; nobody (well, nobody worth mentioning, anyway) seriously thinks that that's the way things actually work, but some can take consolation in it when the real thing is in abscence or is inconvienient....