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• Quote #601 Most documentation starts as hastily scrawled notes from sleep-deprived developers who weren't necessarily hired for their keen communication skills.
  Those notes are then fleshed out by recently graduated English majors who have spent their last four years immersed in works of fiction....
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today-but the core of science fiction, its essence .
  . . has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all. -- Issac Asimov...
• oid suff. [from Greek suffix -oid = `in the image of'] 1.
  Used as in mainstream slang English to indicate a poor imitation, a counterfeit, or some otherwise slightly bogus resemblance....
• oid: [from `android'] suff. 1. Used as in mainstream English to indicate a poor imitation, a counterfeit, or some otherwise slightly bogus resemblance.
  Hackers will happily use it with all sorts of non-Greco/Latin stem words that wouldn't keep company with it in mainstream English....
• Linux IS user friendly. It's just not very promiscuous about whom it's user friendly WITH.
  -- Button at Science Fiction Conventio...
• Hello, this is Jim. Unfortunately I can't answer the phone right now because I've just come back from the Mirror Worlds and I'm still made up of antimatte
  o if I were to pick up the phone right now, the resulting energy release would make Hiroshima look like a wet firecracker....
• The following article appeared in a recent issue of a college newspaper.
  "Among all students who graduated from Hooper University over the past five years, more physical science majors than social science majors found permanent jobs within a year of graduation....
• And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
  -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr....