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• Authors (and perhaps columnists) eventually rise to the top of whatever depths they were once able to plumb.
  -- Stanley Kaufma...
• I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people did.
  Dad's advice? "Margo, don't be a sheep. People hate sheep. They eat sheep." -- Margo Kaufma...
• Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour, Found thee a way, out of his wreck, to rise i
  A sure and safe one, though thy master missed it. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry VIII -- Act iii, Sc....
• Most organizations are like septic tanks, the big chunks rise to the top.
• Plumb Good: Dwayne Pipe.
• Between amoebas and mankind There seems to be a mighty chasm But if you study both, you'll find Your body, and perhaps, your mind Is largely of this very kind Of animated protoplasm.
  -- Gerald Lynton Kaufma...
• Unix /yoo'niks/ n. [In the authors' words, "A weak pun on Multic
  very early on it was `UNICS'] (also `UNIX') An interactive time-sharing system invented in 1969 by Ken Thompson after Bell Labs left the Multics project, originally so he could play games on his scavenged PDP-7....
• Perhaps Dundee's wild-warbling measures rise, Or plaintive Martyrs, worthy of the name.
  -- Robert Burns (1759-1796) -- The Cotter's Saturday Nigh...