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# 1241
How much does it cost to entice a dope-smoking UNIX system guru to Dayton?
		-- Brian Boyle, UNIX/WORLD's First Annual Salary Survey
 
# 1242
How much net work could a network work, if a network could net work?
 
# 1243
Hug me now, you mad, impetuous fool!!  
	Oh wait...
		I'm a computer, and you're a person.  It would never work out.
			Never mind.
 
# 1244
I *____knew* I had some reason for not logging you off... If I could just
remember what it was.
 
# 1245
I am a computer. I am dumber than any human and smarter than any administrator.
 
# 1246
I am NOMAD!
 
# 1247
I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member of the demigodic party.
		-- Dennis Ritchie
 
# 1248
I am professionally trained in computer science, which is to say
(in all seriousness) that I am extremely poorly educated.
		-- Joseph Weizenbaum, "Computer Power and Human Reason"
 
# 1249
I am the wandering glitch -- catch me if you can.
 
# 1250
I asked the engineer who designed the communication terminal's keyboards
why these were not manufactured in a central facility, in view of the
small number needed [1 per month] in his factory.  He explained that this
would be contrary to the political concept of local self-sufficiency.
Therefore, each factory needing keyboards, no matter how few, manufactures
them completely, even molding the keypads.
		-- Isaac Auerbach, IEEE "Computer", Nov. 1979
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