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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Writing is easy; all you do is sit staring at the blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
-- Gene Fowle...
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money. -- J.P. Donleavy
Writing software is more fun than working. WRONG!
WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get.
X windows: Accept any substitute. If it's broke, don't fix it.
If it ain't broke, fix it. Form follows malfunction....
X windows: It's not how slow you make it. It's how you make it slow.
The windowing system preferred by masochists 3 to 1....
X windows: Something you can be ashamed of. 30%% more entropy than the leading window system.
The first fully modular software disaster. Rome was destroyed in a day....
X windows: The ultimate bottleneck. Flawed beyond belief.
The only thing you have to fear. Somewhere between chaos and insanity....
X windows: We will dump no core before its time. One good crash deserves another.
A bad idea whose time has come. And gone. We make excuses....

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