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• 1) It's a lot more work than it looks. 2) You can't bluff your way through it.
  3) You don't want to have to look at the manual in the middle of it....
• mart terminal n. 1. A terminal that has enough computing capability to render graphics or to offload some kind of front-end processing from the computer it talks to.
  The development of workstations and personal computers has made this term and the product it describes semi-obsolescent, but one may still hear variants of the phrase `act like a smart terminal' used to describe the behavior of workstations or PCs with respect to programs that execute almost entirely out of a remote server's storage, using local devices as displays....
• mart terminal: n. 1. A terminal that has enough computing capability to render graphics or to offload some kind of front-end processing from the computer it talks to.
  The development of workstations and personal computers has made this term and the product it describes semi-obsolescent, but one may still hear variants of the phrase `act like a smart terminal' used to describe the behavior of workstations or PCs with respect to programs that execute almost entirely out of a remote {server}'s storage, using said devices as displays....
• Exxon's 'Universe of Energy' tends to the peculiar rather than the humorous .
  .. After [an incomprehensible film montage about wind and sun and rain and strip mines and] two or three minutes of mechanical confusion, the seats locomote through a short tunnel filled with clock-work dinosaurs....
• brain-damaged adj. 1. [common; generalization of `Honeywell Brain Damage' (HBD), a theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter cretinisms in Honeywell Multics] adj.
  Obviously wrong; cretinous; demented. There is an implication that the person responsible must have suffered brain damage, because he should have known better....
• brain-damaged: 1. [generalization of `Honeywell Brain Damage' (HBD), a theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter cretinisms in Honeywell {{Multics}}] adj.
  Obviously wrong; {cretinous}; {demented}. There is an implication that the person responsible must have suffered brain damage, because he should have known better....
• Otto: My standards are just too high, you know? I feel like nobody's good enough for me.
  [a flea falls from his hair] Oh. You think you got 'em all, but you forget about the eggs!...
• The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself
  but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is....
• Wyszkowski's Second Law: Anything can be made to work if you fiddle with it long enough.