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• cycle crunch: n. A situation wherein the number of people trying to use a computer simultaneously has reached the point where no one can get enough cycles because they are spread too thin and the system has probably begun to {thrash}.
  This scenario is an inevitable result of Parkinson's Law applied to timesharing....
• Contemporary technology makes available many small pieces of factual information.
  As a result, people have become so preoccupied with bits of fragmented information that they pay too little attention to the larger issues and overall perspectives....
• cycle crunch n.,obs. A situation wherein the number of people trying to use a computer simultaneously has reached the point where no one can get enough cycles because they are spread too thin and the system has probably begun to thrash.
  This scenario is an inevitable result of Parkinson's Law applied to timesharing....
• I judge a religion as being good or bad based on whether its adherents become better people as a result of practicing it.
  -- Joe Mullally, computer salesma...
• At various times in the geological past, many species have become extinct as a result of natural, rather than human, processes.
  Thus, there is no justification for society to make extraordinary efforts, especially at a great cost in money and jobs, to save endangered species....
• jiffy n. 1. The duration of one tick of the system clock on your computer (see tick).
  Often one AC cycle time (1/60 second in the U....
• MS-DOS /M-S-dos/ n. [MicroSoft Disk Operating System] A clone of CP/M for the 8088 crufted together in 6 weeks by hacker Tim Paterson at Seattle Computer Produc
  who called the original QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) and is said to have regretted it ever since....
• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
  Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great....