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• Artists should pay little attention to their critics.
  * Criticism tends to undermine and constrain the artist's creativity....
• As in Protestant Europe, by contrast, where sects divided endlessly into smaller competing sects and no church dominated any other, all is different in the fragmented world of IBM.
  That realm is now a chaos of conflicting norms and standards that not even IBM can hope to control....
• The difference between art and science is that if something works in art, you don't have to explain why.
• MEGABOGUE (1987-) Megabogue's music has been described as "anal sadistic", "creative lionism", and "a load of shit" by various critics of differing intellectual standards over the years.
  The crux of their music is a complete lack of talent or effort put into their recordings....
• The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from.
  Furthermore, if you do not like any of them, you can just wait for next year's model....
• Liberals do have standards - double standards!
• The pedestrian works where I work. She is a standards coordinator.
  Funny she should be the one I hit....
• You know who critics are?--the men who have failed in literature and art.
  -- Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield) (1805-1881) -- Lothair, Chap. xxxv...
• RTFS /R-T-F-S/ [Unix] 1. imp. Abbreviation for `Read The Fucking Source'.
  Variant form of RTFM, used when the problem at hand is not necessarily obvious and not answerable from the manuals -- or the manuals are not yet written and maybe never will be....