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• Now that we have managed, in the course of human history, to domesticate so many of the animals, perhaps it is time that we get to one important effort we seem to have neglected.
  ..human beings. We can give domestication a try....
• We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had at the time.
  No one would have guessed in 1941 that we would be attacked in such an unsportsmanlike manner as we were....
• Private Joke Center of the known universe.
• blinkenlights /blink'*n-li:tz/ n. [common] Front-panel diagnostic lights on a computer, esp.
  a dinosaur. Now that dinosaurs are rare, this term usually refers to status lights on a modem, network hub, or the like....
• WE: The single most important word in the world.
• ....and the far-flung Isles of Langerhans." -- Firesign Theatre's HOW TO BE IN TWO PLACES AT ONCE
• ecompile the world The surprisingly large amount of work that needs to be done as the result of any small but globally visible program change.
  The world" may mean the entirety of some huge program, or may in theory refer to every program of a certain class in the entire known universe....
• Humanity has in the course of time had to endure from the hands of science two great outrages upon its naive self-love.
  The first was when it realized that our earth was not the center of the universe, but only a speck in a world-system of a magnitude hardly conceivable....