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• of the many who beseech the Goddess to send them love, so few will accept it when it comes, because it has come in what they consider the wrong shape, or the wrong size, or at the wrong time.
  Against our prejudices, even the Goddess strives in vain. -- Diane Duane, DOOR INTO FIRE...
• Thank you for trying to sell me something I don't want, but I don't have any surplus hostility to vent.
  Could you please come back at a worse time?...
• BIBLE A bible is a book which one or more religions consider to be holy, and to be something that they should follow.
  It is of course generally rather impractical to follow books, not just because they don't often go anywhere, but also because they are not very good at public speaking, decision making, problem solving, or any of the other qualities recognised as being an advantage for leadership....
• brute force adj. Describes a primitive programming style
  one in which the programmer relies on the computer's processing power instead of using his or her own intelligence to simplify the problem, often ignoring problems of scale and applying naive methods suited to small problems directly to large ones....
• languages of choice: n. {C} and {LISP}. Nearly every hacker knows one of these, and most good ones are fluent in both.
  Smalltalk and Prolog are also popular in small but influential communities....
• Theme music from Peter Gunn:) My name is David. What people call me is something else entirely.
  I'm a P.I. It says so on my door. I would have been here to take your call, but then....
• Stayed in bed all morning just to pass the time, There's something wrong here
  here can be no more denying, One of us is changing, or maybe we just stopped trying, And it's too late, baby, now, it's too late, Though we really did try to make it, Something inside has died and I can't hide and I just can't fake it....
• So many systems... So little time!
• Real Programmer n. [indirectly, from the book "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche"] A particular sub-variety of hacke
  one possessed of a flippant attitude toward complexity that is arrogant even when justified by experience....