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In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation.
The old principle: Who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one...
In a display of perverse brilliance, Carl the repairman mistakes a room humidifier for a mid-range computer but manages to tie it into the network anyway.
-- The 5th Wave...
In a five year period we can get one superb programming language.
Only we can't control when the five year period will begin....
In a gathering of two or more people, when a lighted cigarette is placed in an ashtray, the smoke will waft into the face of the non-smoker.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley...
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence .
.. in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ....
In a minimum-phase system there is an inextricable link between frequency response, phase response and transient response, as they are all merely transforms of one another.
This combined with minimal...
In a surprise raid last night, federal agent's ransacked a house in search of a rebel computer hacker.
However, they were unable to complete the arrest because the warrant was made out in the name of...
In a whiskey it's age, in a cigarette it's taste and in a sports car it's impossible.
In America any boy may become President, and I suppose that's just the risk he takes.
-- Adlai Stevenso...

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