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• If a great deal of time has been expended seeking the answer to a problem, with the only result being failure, the answer will be immediately obvious to the first unqualified person who comes along.
• 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....
• He who considers too much will perform little. SCHILLER
• language lawyer n. A person, usually an experienced or senior software enginee
  who is intimately familiar with many or most of the numerous restrictions and features (both useful and esoteric) applicable to one or more computer programming languages....
• language lawyer: n. A person, usually an experienced or senior software enginee
  who is intimately familiar with many or most of the numerous restrictions and features (both useful and esoteric) applicable to one or more computer programming languages....
• He who spends five dollars for entertainment on a truck stop parking lot is apt to get far more than he paid for.
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• MEMO: An interoffice communication too often written more for the benefit of the person who sends it than the person who receives it.
• How many Mensans -- does it take to change a light bulb?
  66. Eleven philosophers to ponder whether it is possible to actually do anything...