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• I don't care what you think of me, so long as it's favorable.
• I wanted only to try to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self.
  Why was that so very difficult? -- Hermann Hesse...
• You're aware the boy failed my grade school math class, I take it?
  And not that many years later he's teaching college....
• Ill-chosen abstraction is particularly evident in the design of the ADA runtime system.
  The interface to the ADA runtime system is so opaque that it is impossible to model or predict its performance, making it effectively useless for real-time systems....
• Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago.
  -- Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839) -- Long, long ago...
• TOPS-10 /tops-ten/ n. DEC's proprietary OS for the fabled PDP-10 machines, long a favorite of hackers but now effectively extinct.
  A fountain of hacker folklore; see Appendix A....
• I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true. -- Dorothy Parke
• The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
  Albert Einstei...
• I am not permitted to enter the prison cell.