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You Can Tell You're Pushing A New Frontier When All Available Tools Are Inappropriate.
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"You can tell you're pushing a new frontier when all
available tools are inappropriate."
-- Rule 157
"There's glory in using inappropriate tools."
-- Corollary to Rule 157
-- David Berkstresser, Quotemeister
Related:
depeditate /dee-ped'*-tayt/ n. [by (faulty) analogy with `decapitate'] Humorously, to cut off the feet of.
When one is using some computer-aided typesetting tools, careless placement of text blocks within a page or above a rule can result in chopped-off letter descenders....
You can always tell the people that are forging the new frontier.
They're the ones with arrows sticking out of their backs....
depeditate: /dee-ped'*-tayt/ [by (faulty) analogy with `decapitate'] vt.
Humorously, to cut off the feet of. When one is using some computer-aided typesetting tools, careless placement of text blocks within a page or above a rule can result in chopped-off letter descenders....
Quote #168 "We don't have a patent on irony and satire
hose tools are available for you to use in your own work....
I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside.
I knew what was coming. "You don't have to tell me," I said....
Men have become tools of their tools. -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
How can you tell when a little moron has been using your terminal?
There's white-out all over the screen....
Quote #157 "Not at all tricky. We do this sort of stuff every day before breakfast.
Then I fly to work on my winged pig, Swilma." -- David Chase Answering some compiler- or OS-related question....
Rule your mind or it will rule you. HORACE