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• pistol n. [IBM] A tool that makes it all too easy for you to shoot yourself in the foot.
  Unix rm * makes such a nice pistol!...
• pistol: [IBM] n. A tool that makes it all too easy for you to shoot yourself in the foot.
  UNIX `rm *' makes such a nice pistol!" -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• When an eel bites your leg, and the pain makes you beg, that's a moray!
• Friendship is neither transitive nor inherited. -- Bjarne Stroustrup, The C++ Programming Language
• Having high aims in life makes it a bit more possible to shoot yourself in the knee, rather than in the foot.
• If that makes any sense to you, you have a big problem. -- C. Durance, Computer Science 234
• If that makes any sense to you, you have a big problem." -- C. Durance, Computer Science 234
• When the need arises -- and it does -- you must be able to shoot your own dog.
  Don't farm it out -- that doesn't make it nicer, it makes it worse....