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• Every revolutionary idea - in science, politics, art, or whatever - evokes three stages of reaction in a heare
  --It is completely impossible - don't waste my time....
• Clarke's Law of Revolutionary Ideas Every revolutionary idea - in Science, Politics, Art or Whatever - evokes three stages of reaction.
  They may be summed up by the three phrases: 1) "It is completely impossible -- don't waste my time....
• aive: adj. Untutored in the perversities of some particular program or system
  one who still tries to do things in an intuitive way, rather than the right way (in really good designs these coincide, but most designs aren't `really good' in the appropriate sense)....
• creationism n. The (false) belief that large, innovative software designs can be completely specified in advance and then painlessly magicked out of the void by the normal efforts of a team of normally talented programmers.
  In fact, experience has shown repeatedly that good designs arise only from evolutionary, exploratory interaction between one (or at most a small handful of) exceptionally able designer(s) and an active user population -- and that the first try at a big new idea is always wrong....
• Kent: Excuse me, Mr. Burns, now that you're completely ruined, how do you feel?
  Burns: Excellent. I'm on my way back to the top! I've turned these cans into can-dos!...
• consult guide about intelligence The Guide checks through its Sub-Etha-Net database and eventually comes up with the following entry
  Thirty million generations of philosophers have debated the definition of intelligence....
• creationism: n. The (false) belief that large, innovative software designs can be completely specified in advance and then painlessly magicked out of the void by the normal efforts of a team of normally talented programmers.
  In fact, experience has shown repeatedly that good designs arise only from evolutionary, exploratory interaction between one (or at most a small handful of) exceptionally able designer(s) and an active user population -- and that the first try at a big new idea is always wrong....
• Your average ghost is a much more complex and interesting individual than is generally imagined.
  Just because someone is dragging chains or has one's head perpetually in flames does not necessarily make them of a lesser class....
• etcon /ret'kon/ [short for `retroactive continuity', from the Usenet newsgroup rec.
  arts.comics] 1. n. The common situation in pulp fiction (esp....