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One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from one end to the other.
Reading the Bible straight through is at least 70 percent discipline, like learning Latin....
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
-- Will Dura...
one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
-- Robert Firth...
One of the oldest problems puzzled over in the Talmud i
Why did God create goyim?" The generally accepted answer is "________somebody has to buy retail....
One of the questions that comes up all the time i
How enthusiastic is our support for UNIX? Unix was written on our machines and for our machines many years ago....
One of the rules of Busmanship, New York style, is never surrender your seat to another passenger.
This may seem callous, but it is the best way, really....
The Seventh Commandments for Technicians Work thou not on energized equipment, for if thou dost, thy fellow workers will surely buy beers for thy widow and console her in other ways.
The First Commandment for Technicians: Beware the lightening that lurketh in the undischarged capacitor, lest it cause thee to bounce upon thy buttocks in a most untechnician-like manner.
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.
5x11 inch paper cannot be understood. -- Mark Ardi...
One planet is all you get.

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