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• This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.
  The device is inherently of no value to us. -- Western Union internal memo, 1876....
• MEMO: An interoffice communication too often written more for the benefit of the person who sends it than the person who receives it.
• The neutron bomb is a nuclear device that kills people without destroying buildings.
  Many people feel this is inhumane; they much prefer the old- fashioned humane-type nuclear devices that kill people *and* destroy buildings....
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you look at an internal telephone extension number 2444 and immediately try to work out what permissions it represents, and then wonder why it's sgid!
• It has come to our considered attention that in a large majority of case
  far too many people use a great deal more words than is absolutely necessary when engaged in the practice of writing sentences....
• TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details.
  Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice....
• flat adj. 1. [common] Lacking any complex internal structure.
  That bitty box has only a flat filesystem, not a hierarchical one....
• flat: adj. 1. Lacking any complex internal structure.
  That {bitty box} has only a flat filesystem, not a hierarchical one....