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• Be warned that being an expert is more than understanding how a system is supposed to work.
  Expertise is gained by investigating why a system doesn't work....
• Status is gained in the eyes of others, and in one's own eyes, because it is assumed that the importance of the work justifies the stress.
• Picard: "Captain's Log, Stardate 45494.2. We're investigating a series of subspace signals that may indicate intelligent life in the Epsilon Solar system.
  We are within sensor range." -- "Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2...
• If life is free why work?
• Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the fac
  but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind....
• Why won't this dang thing work?
• Any system supplied by three or more vendors will not work.
• No program done by a hacker will work unless he is on the system.
• In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work. -- Milton Friedma