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# 1611
The algorithm for finding the longest path in a graph is NP-complete.
For you systems people, that means it's *real slow*.
		-- Bart Miller
 
# 1612
"The algorithm to do that is extremely nasty.  You might want to mug
someone with it."
		-- M. Devine, Computer Science 340
 
# 1613
The Analytical Engine weaves Algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard
loom weaves flowers and leaves.
		-- Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace, the first programmer
 
# 1614
"The bad reputation UNIX has gotten is totally undeserved, laid on by people
who don't understand, who have not gotten in there and tried anything."
		-- Jim Joyce, owner of Jim Joyce's UNIX Bookstore
 
# 1615
The beer-cooled computer does not harm the ozone layer.
		-- John M. Ford, a.k.a. Dr. Mike

	[If I can read my notes from the Ask Dr. Mike session at Baycon, I
	 believe he added that the beer-cooled computer uses "Forget Only
	 Memory".  Ed.]
 
# 1616
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland";
but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
 
# 1617
The best way to accelerate a Macintoy is at 9.8 meters per second per second.
 
# 1618
The bogosity meter just pegged.
 
# 1619
The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a
digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top
of a mountain or in the petals of a flower.  To think otherwise is to demean
the Buddha -- which is to demean oneself.
		-- Robert Pirsig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
 
# 1620
The bugs you have to avoid are the ones that give the user not only
the inclination to get on a plane, but also the time.
		-- Kay Bostic
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