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• Knowledge is like a river ... The deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
• I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.
  A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing - a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil....
• Man is a piece of the universe made alive. -- R. W. Emerso
• The only really masterful noise a man makes in a house is the noise of his key, when he is still on the landing, fumbling for the lock.
  -- Colette...
• One coin in the money box makes more noise than when it is full. Arab Proverb
• It's the empty can that makes the most noise.
• Per buck you get more computing action with the small computer. -- R. W. Hamming
• A is for awk, which runs like a snail, and B is for biff, which reads all your mail.
  C is for cc, as hackers recall, while D is for dd, the command that does all....
• As the system comes up, the component builders will from time to time appear, bearing hot new versions of their pieces -- faster, smaller, more complete, or putatively less buggy.
  The replacement of a working component by a new version requires the same systematic testing procedure that adding a new component does, although it should require less time, for more complete and efficient test cases will usually be available....