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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
In Cristianity, a man may have only one wife. This is called Monotony.
In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable. -- W. Churchill, on General Montgomery
In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, delve deep into the heart.
In dealing with others, be gentle and kind. In speech, be true....
In English, every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. -- Thomas Jefferso
In every hierarchy the cream rises until it sours. -- Dr. Laurence J. Pete
In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun.
Find the fun and snap! The job's a game. And every task you undertake, becomes a piece of cake, a lark, a spree...
In every non-trivial program there is at least one bug.
In fact, S. M. Simpson, eventually devised an efficient 24-point Fourier transform, which was a precursor to the Cooley-Tukey fast Fourier transform in 1965.
The FFT made all of Simpson's efficient a...

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