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• Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. (Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.
  ) -- William of Occam, Occam's Razo...
• Pluralitas non ponenda est sine necessitate. (Multiplicity is not to be asserted when it is unnecessary.
  ) -- William of Occam [Occam's Razor]...
• Long's Notes 1) Always store beer in a dark place.
  2) Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent....
• brute force adj. Describes a primitive programming style
  one in which the programmer relies on the computer's processing power instead of using his or her own intelligence to simplify the problem, often ignoring problems of scale and applying naive methods suited to small problems directly to large ones....
• Hanlon's Razor prov. A corollary of Finagle's Law, similar to Occam's Razor, that reads "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
  The derivation of the Hanlon eponym is not definitely known, but a very similar remark ("You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity....
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• On the other hand, the TCP camp also has a phrase for OSI people.
  There are lots of phrases. My favorite is `nitwit' -- and the rationale is the Internet philosophy has always been you have extremely bright, non-partisan researchers look at a topic, do world-class research, do several competing implementations, have a bake-off, determine what works best, write it down and make that the standard....
• Empedocles says that the greater part of the members of animals were generated by chance.
  .. What, then, hinders but that the parts in Nature may also thus arise [from necessity]?...
• Hypotheses are not to be multiplied without necessity. -- Occam's Razo