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- If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
- Tom Robbins (1936 - )
- The anatomical juxtaposition of 2 orbicularis oris muscles in a state of contraction.
- Dr. Henry Gibbons
- Call my dad, my mom's too busy.
- Chelsea Clinton, when the school nurse told her parental permission would be necessary for her to take some aspirin.
- Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.
- Dick Brandon
- program - A set of instructions, given to the computer, describing the sequence of steps the computer performs in order to accomplish a specific task. The task must be specific, such as balancing your checkbook or editing your text. A general task, such as working for world peace, is something we can all do, but not something we can currently write programs to do.
- From Unix User's Manual Manual, Supplementary Documents, p. 14-3:
- All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
- IBM maintenance manual, 1925
- Do not expose your LaserWriter to fire or intense heat.
- Apple LaserWriter manual
- Now that we have all this useful information, it would be nice to do something with it. (Actually, it can be emotionally fulfilling just to get the information. This is usually only true, however, if you have the social life of a kumquat.)
- Unix Programmer's Manual
- This document describes the usage and input syntax of the Unix Vax-11 assembler As. As is designed for assembling code produced by the "C" compiler; certain concessions have been made to handle code written directly by people, but in general little sympathy has been extended.
- Berkeley Vax/Unix Assembler Reference Manual (1983)
- As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.
- Maurice Wilkes, discovers debugging, 1949
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