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• 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 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...
• In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
  -- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) -- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776), Chap. xlviii...
• Quote #26 A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author.
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• All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance.
  -- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) -- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776), Chap. lxxi...
• Amiable weaknesses of human nature. -- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) -- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776), Chap.
  xiv...
• Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
  -- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) -- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776), Chap. xlix...