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User Hostile
User: I'm having problems with my text editor.
Help desk: Which editor are you using? User: I don't know, but it's version VI....
User: My printer doesn't work. Where do I get a new one?
Admin: Are you sure that all the connections are hooked up properly?...
USER n.: A programmer who will believe anything you tell him.
USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean idiot.
-- Dave Barry, Claw Your Way to the Top...
user-obsequious: adj. Emphatic form of {user-friendly}.
Connotes a system so verbose, inflexible, and determinedly simple-minded that it is nearly unusable....
user %s fault: addr=0x%x be=0x%x
Users: Keep them dry and don't feed them after midnight.
Users, losers -- what's the difference?
users of a tool are willing to meet you halfway; if you do ninety percent of the job, they will be ecstatic.
-- Software Tools, p.136....

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