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O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!: Othello
The anatomical juxtaposition of 2 orbicularis oris muscles in a state of contraction.: Dr. Henry Gibbons
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
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
... it is important to realize that any lock can be picked with a big enough hammer.: Sun System & Network Admin manual
Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts of tiny trumpets, we have met the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.: Walt Kelly (1913 - 1973)

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