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• The concept of 'individual responsibility' is a necessary fiction.
  Although societies must hold individuals accountable for their own actions, people's behavior is largely determined by forces not of their own making....
• People who have nothing to say often do and take a good long time doing it.
  People who have something to say, often do not. People who are unsure, often go ahead and say it anyway, thus putting them into the first category....
• Non-fiction often is more unrealistic than fiction.
• old fart n. Tribal elder. A title self-assumed with remarkable frequency by (esp.
  ) Usenetters who have been programming for more than about 25 yea...
• I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
  E.V. Luca...
• To rebel against a powerful political, economic, religious, or social estab- lishment is very dangerous and very few people do it, except, perhaps, as part of a mob.
  To rebel against the scientific establishment, however, is the easiest thing in the world, and anyone can do it and feel enormously brave, without risking as much as a hangnail....
• coefficient of X n. Hackish speech makes heavy use of pseudo-mathematical metaphors.
  Four particularly important ones involve the terms `coefficient', `factor', `index of X', and `quotient'....
• Most people - one may say the best sort of people - greatly prefer to do things for themselves, however badly, than to have things done for them, however well.
  -- Anon....
• hog n.,vt. 1. Favored term to describe programs or hardware that seem to eat far more than their share of a system's resources, esp.
  hose which noticeably degrade interactive response....