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• Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest.
  Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...
• The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.
  -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)...
• W (double U) has, of all the letters in our alphabet, the only cumbrous name, the names of the others being monosyllabic.
  This advantage of the Roman alphabet over the Grecian is the more valued after audibly spelling out some simple Greek word, like _epixoriambikos_....
• There is a kind of poetry in simple fact. -- Edward Abbey
• New order!...That's another familiar name for the 'improvement' of people who get in your way.
  -- B.F. Skinner Walden Two...
• When a man gets a place in the sun, others are put in denser shade. -- Walden Two
• There are only 3 lawyer jokes - the rest are fact!
• magic number n. [Unix/C; common] 1. In source code
  some non-obvious constant whose value is significant to the operation of a program and that is inserted inconspicuously in-line (hardcoded), rather than expanded in by a symbol set by a commented #define....
• gotcha n. A misfeature of a system, especially a programming language or environme
  hat tends to breed bugs or mistakes because it both enticingly easy to invoke and completely unexpected and/or unreasonable in its outcome....