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- 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:
- ... it is important to realize that any lock can be picked with a big enough hammer.
- Sun System & Network Admin manual
- Get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.
- Mickey Rooney (1920 - )
- Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.
- Eric Sevareid
- Working on television is like being shot out of a cannon. They cram you all up with rehearsals, then someone lights a fuse and - BANG - there you are in someone's living room.
- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
- More people out of work leads to higher unemployment.`
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
- By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
- I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old. When I was 65 I had cupid's eczema. I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.
- George Burns (1896 - 1996)
- I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.
- John Waters
- Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben
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