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Niklaus Wirth has lamented that, whereas Europeans pronounce his name correctly (Ni-klows Virt), Americans invariably mangle it into (Nick-les Worth).
Which is to say that Europeans call him by nam...
Nine megs for the secretaries fair, Seven megs for the hackers scarce, Five megs for the grads in smoky lairs, Three megs for system source
One disk to rule them all, One disk to bind them, O...
Nine-track tapes and seven-track tapes And tapes without any track
Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would.
The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much....
Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules: The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
Nirvana? Thats the place where the powers that be and their friends hang out.
-- Zonker Harri...
No animal should ever jump on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain he can hold his own in conversation.
-- Fran Lebowitz...
No committee could ever come up with anything as revolutionary as a camel -- anything as practical and as perfectly designed to perform effectively under such difficult conditions.
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No good deed goes unpunished. -- Clare Boothe Luce
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollock...

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