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• Once things have happened, no matter how accidentally, they will be regarded as manifestations of an unchangeable higher reason.
  -- Prof. Charles Frankel...
• creeping featurism /kree'ping fee'chr-izm/ n. [common] 1.
  Describes a systematic tendency to load more chrome and features onto systems at the expense of whatever elegance they may have possessed when originally designed....
• creeping featurism: /kree'ping fee'chr-izm/ n. 1. Describes a systematic tendency to load more {chrome} and {feature}s onto systems at the expense of whatever elegance they may have possessed when originally designed.
  See also {feeping creaturism}. "You know, the main problem with {BSD} UNIX has always been creeping featurism....
• Meader's Law: Whatever happens to you, it will previously have happened to everyone you know, only more so.
• Whatever happens to you, it will previously have happened to everyone you know, only more so.
  -- Meader's Law...
• Accidents cause History. If Sigismund Unbuckle had taken a walk in 1426 and met Wat Tyle
  he Peasant's Revolt would never have happened and the motor car would not have been invented until 2026, which would have meant that all the oil could have been used for lamps, thus saving the electric light bulb and the whale, and nobody would have caught Moby Dick or Billy Budd....