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Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it. -- George Bernard Shaw
Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.
-- from "Tom Jones" by Henry Fielding (1707-1754)...
Every politician we have, liberal or conservative, who gets caught drinking or chasing women is thrown out of office.
It's backwards. It's more dangerous to have a clean-living President with his fi...
Every production must resemble its author. -- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
Every prof blows this. We're all going to get AIDS or something. -- J. Vanderkooy Physics 122
Every program at MIT attempts to expand until it can read mail.
Those programs which cannot expand are replaced by ones which can....
Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction -- from which, by induction, one can deduce that every program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work.
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.
Every program in development at MIT expands until it can read mail.
-- The Law of Software Development and Envelopment at MIT...
Every program is a part of some other program, and rarely fits.

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