Quote #1 There Is This Special Biologist Word We Use For 'stable'.

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• Conservative (we don't use that word)
• Where quality is just a word we like to use.
• A biologist, a statistician, a mathematician and a computer scientist are on a photo-safari in Africa.
  As they're driving along the savannah in their jeep, they stop and scout the horizon with their binoculars....
• Quote #635 Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual-- not how to use it but why, when and for what.
  -- Alan Kay...
• Master, why is the letter 'i' the symbol for current?
  Because there is no letter 'i' in the word 'current'....
• 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....
• Do not use that foreign word "ideals". We have that excellent native word "lies".
  -- Henrik Ibsen, "The Wild Duck...
• If you're so special, why aren't you dead?