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• Arbitrary systems, pl.n.: Systems about which nothing general can be said, save "nothing general can be said.
• Sweer's Impossibility Theorem: Nothing can be both completely general and internally consistent at the same time.
• Nothing can be both completely general and internally consistent at the same time.
  -- Sweer`s Impossibility Theorem...
• bondage-and-discipline language n. A language (such as Pascal
  Ada, APL, or Prolog) that, though ostensibly general-purpose, is designed so as to enforce an author's theory of `right programming' even though said theory is demonstrably inadequate for systems hacking or even vanilla general-purpose programming....
• Nothing can be said so correctly that it cannot be twisted. -- Spinoza
• Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
• milliLampson /mil'*-lamp`sn/ n. A unit of talking speed, abbreviated mL.
  Most people run about 200 milliLampsons. The eponymous Butler Lampson (a CS theorist and systems implementor highly regarded among hackers) goes at 1000....
• A novel approach is to remove all power from the system, which removes most system overhead so that resources can be fully devoted to doing nothing.
  Benchmarks on this technique are promising; tremendous amounts of nothing can be produced in this manner....