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• IF original_works THEN don't_upgrade ENDIF
• Before technology, things didn't work, but people sure did.
  Now, with progress and additional technology, nothing works, at least not for long....
• A new author attempted to get an older author to read his works simply by sending them to the older man.
  The older author read what was sent and replied that the work was both interesting and original, but unfortunately, that which was original was not interesting and that which was interesting was not original....
• I think the problem isn't the amount of knowledge we have to assimilate in our world, but the rate at which we can assimiliate it.
  Science, engineering, and technology do not yield the 'whys' of truth...
• There is a general idea that a translation always fails to preserve some of the qualities that distinguish the original work .
  i.e., that 'something always gets lost in translation....
• canonical adj. [very common; historically, `according to religious law'] The usual or standard state or manner of something.
  This word has a somewhat more technical meaning in mathematics....
• On the other hand, the TCP camp also has a phrase for OSI people.
  There are lots of phrases. My favorite is `nitwit' -- and the rationale is the Internet philosophy has always been you have extremely bright, non-partisan researchers look at a topic, do world-class research, do several competing implementations, have a bake-off, determine what works best, write it down and make that the standard....
• The following appeared in a report by the School District of Eyleria.
  "Nationally, the average ratio of computers to students in kindergarten through grade 12 (K-12) is 1...
• New Technology" or "Not Trusted"? -- Laurent Szyste