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The attempt and not the deed Confounds us. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Macbeth -- Act ii, Sc.
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The attempt to tear down our president's leadership with the knowledge of the issues has not failed.
-- Vice President George Bush...
The attention paid to an instructor is a constant regardless of the size of the class.
Thus as class size swells, the amount of attention paid per student drops in direct ratio....
The attention span of a computer is only as long as its electrical cord. -- Turnaucka's Law
The Australian spelling of "disk" is used throughout the quota facilities in honor of the implementors.
-- Unix Manual, QUOTA(2)...
The author: an imaginary person who writes real books. -- Edward Abbey
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
-- Aldous Huxley...
The author should gaze at Noah, and ... learn, as they did in the Ark, to crowd a great deal of matter into a very small compass.
-- Sydney, Smith, Edinburgh Review...
The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
-- Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield) (1805-1881) -- Speech, Nov. 19, 1870...
he automated office is still in its infancy. More IBM Selectric typewriters are stolen in a year than word processing computers sold.
.." -- A quote from 1988 SF Chronicle...

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