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• Digital computers are themselves more complex than most things people build
  They have very large numbers of states. This makes conceiving, describing, and testing them hard....
• One often hears about the need for individuals to take responsibility for their own lives.
  However, the conditions in which people find themselves have been largely established long before people become aware of them....
• one-banana problem n. At mainframe shops, where the computers have operators for routine administrivia
  he programmers and hardware people tend to look down on the operators and claim that a trained monkey could do their job....
• one-banana problem: n. At mainframe shops, where the computers have operators for routine administrivia
  he programmers and hardware people tend to look down on the operators and claim that a trained monkey could do their job....
• One of the best things people could do for their descendants would be to sharply limit the number of them.
  -- Olin Mille...
• Think much, speak little, and write less. However, if you are going to write
  it is well to write what you think people think you think rather than what you think, because people have no idea what you think, and likely as not, are uninterested....
• A wizard is only as good as his spells," people will often say.
  It is telling however, that this statement is only made by people who have never been wizards themselves....
• Things will go on as they always have--that is to say, badly.
• In the United States, there is a lot more space with a fewer people than there is less space with a lot more people.
  Its things like this that make America what it is....