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• The Box, 1969 by Kendrew LaSalles Once upon a time
  in the land of Hush-a-Bye, Around about the wonderous days of yore, They came across a sort of box, all bound with chains and locked with locks, And labeled, "Kindly Do Not Touch....
• The following appeared in a memo from the president of a company that makes breakfast cereals.
  "In a recent study, subjects who ate soybeans at least five times per week had significantly lower cholesterol levels than subjects who ate no soy products....
• HAKMEM /hak'mem/ n. MIT AI Memo 239 (February 1972).
  A legendary collection of neat mathematical and programming hacks contributed by many people at MIT and elsewhere....
• Rubik's cube can be easily pulled apart and put back together again.
  First, >position one side at a diagonal to the others so that you can use a small coin >to prise a corner out....
• NP-: /N-P/ pref. Extremely. Used to modify adjectives describing a level or quality of difficulty
  he connotation is often `more so than it should be' (NP-complete problems all seem to be very hard, but so far no one has found a good a priori reason that they should be....
• At about 2500 A.D., humankind discovers a computer problem that *must* be solved.
  The only difficulty is that the problem is NP complete and will take thousands of years even with the latest optical biologic technology available....
• Lou: Uh, Chief, what about those coleslaw punks? Wiggum
  Well, I... I can't be everywhere at once, Lou, now can I?...
• NP- /N-P/ pref. Extremely. Used to modify adjectives describing a level or quality of difficulty
  he connotation is often `more so than it should be' This is generalized from the computer-science terms `NP-hard' and `NP-complete'...
• Those people who tell you not to take chances, they are all missing on what life's about, you only live once, so take hold of the chance, don't end up like others the same song and dance!
  -- Metallica, 'Motorbreath'...