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• Everything can be filed under "miscellaneous".
• dragon n. [MIT] A program similar to a daemon, except that it is not invoked at all, but is instead used by the system to perform various secondary tasks.
  A typical example would be an accounting program, which keeps track of who is logged in, accumulates load-average statistics, etc....
• Knuth /ka-nooth'/ n. [Donald E. Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming"] Mythically, the reference that answers all questions about data structures or algorithms.
  A safe answer when you do not know: "I think you can find that in Knuth....
• Did you hear that David of the Bible was nothing but a young man who used leather to get his rocks off.
• Man: I can't believe you never heard of me. I'm a very popular entertainer.
  Homer: Oh, of I've heard of you! I mean, you'd have to be living under a rock not to know....
• Hackers: Steven Levy Anchor/Doubleday 1984 ISBN 0-385-19195-2 Levy's book is at its best in describing the early MIT hackers at the Model Railroad Club and the early days of the microcomputer revolution.
  He never understood UNIX or the networks, though, and his enshrinement of Richard Stallman as "the last true hacker" turns out (thankfully) to have been quite misleading....
• 'I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean." -- G. K. Chesterto