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Remove some Dijkstra quotes from fortunes that are duplicated in fortunes2.
Move the single remaining one across to fortunes2 to join its friends. Spell his name consistently. Remove a couple of other duplicate fortunes.
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@ -3365,14 +3365,6 @@ They have no time for birth controls
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And that is why in times like these
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There are so many Sons of Bees.
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Before really embarking on a sizeable project, in particular before
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starting the large investment of coding, try to kill the project
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first.
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-- Edsger Dijkstra, EWD1308
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%
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Before Xerox, five carbons were the maximum extension of anybody's
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ego.
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%
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Begathon, n.:
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A multi-day event on public television, used to raise money so
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you won't have to watch commercials.
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@ -8554,12 +8546,6 @@ It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared
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to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
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-- Havelock Ellis
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It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to
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students that have had prior exposure to BASIC: as potential
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programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of
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regeneration.
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-- Dijkstra
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%
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It is said that the lonely eagle flies to the mountain peaks while the
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lowly ant crawls the ground, but cannot the soul of the ant soar as
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high as the eagle?
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@ -11089,10 +11075,6 @@ probably get run over by a bus.
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Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
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-- Don Marquis
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PL/1, "the fatal disease", belongs more to the problem set than to the
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solution set.
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-- E. W. Dijkstra
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"Plaese porrf raed."
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-- Prof. Michael O'Longhlin, S.U.N.Y. Purchase
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@ -13914,10 +13896,6 @@ yielding a more bounteous harvest of gobbledygook than the rest of the
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world put together.
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-- Sir Peter Medawar
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The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be
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regarded as a criminal offense.
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-- E. W. Dijkstra
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%
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The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes
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the worst cigars.
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-- H. L. Mencken
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@ -8047,15 +8047,6 @@ A wise person makes his own decisions, a weak one obeys public opinion.
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A witty saying proves nothing.
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-- Voltaire
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"A wizard cannot do everything; a fact most magicians are reticent to admit,
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let alone discuss with prospective clients. Still, the fact remains that
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there are certain objects, and people, that are, for one reason or another,
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completely immune to any direct magical spell. It is for this group of
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beings that the magician learns the subtleties of using indirect spells.
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It also does no harm, in dealing with these matters, to carry a large club
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near your person at all times."
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-- The Teachings of Ebenezum, Volume VIII
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%
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A wizard cannot do everything; a fact most magicians are reticent to admit,
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let alone discuss with prospective clients. Still, the fact remains that
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there are certain objects, and people, that are, for one reason or another,
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@ -8272,7 +8263,7 @@ About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
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About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt
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ax. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
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-- Edsger Dijkstra
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-- Edsger W. Dijkstra
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%
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Above all else - sky.
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%
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@ -8866,7 +8857,7 @@ Al didn't smile for forty years. You've got to admire a man like that.
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Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether
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machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about
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as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim.
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-- Dijkstra
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-- Edsger W. Dijkstra
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%
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Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
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-- William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona"
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@ -11237,9 +11228,6 @@ never really caught on.
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Back when I was a boy, it was 40 miles to everywhere,
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uphill both ways and it was always snowing.
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Back when I was a boy, it was 40 miles to everywhere, uphill both ways
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and it was always snowing.
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BACKWARD CONDITIONING:
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Putting saliva in a dog's mouth in an attempt to make a bell ring.
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@ -11492,6 +11480,11 @@ Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone.
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Before marriage the three little words are "I love you," after marriage
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they are "Let's eat out."
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%
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Before really embarking on a sizeable project, in particular before
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starting the large investment of coding, try to kill the project
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first.
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-- Edsger W. Dijkstra, EWD1308
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%
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Before Xerox, five carbons were the maximum extension of anybody's ego.
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Before you ask more questions, think about whether
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@ -13140,7 +13133,7 @@ COBOL:
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Completely Over and Beyond reason Or Logic.
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COBOL is for morons.
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-- E.W. Dijkstra
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-- Edsger W. Dijkstra
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Cobol programmers are down in the dumps.
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@ -22077,7 +22070,7 @@ I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything,
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but I can't prove it.
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I have a very small mind and must live with it.
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-- E. Dijkstra
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-- Edsger W. Dijkstra
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I have a very strange feeling about this...
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-- Luke Skywalker
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@ -31794,7 +31787,7 @@ consultants, and at some point you time them out.
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Much of the excitement we get out of our work
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is that we don't really know what we are doing.
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-- E. Dijkstra
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-- Edsger W. Dijkstra
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Much to his Mum and Dad's dismay, Horace ate himself one day.
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He didn't stop to say his grace, he just sat down and ate his face.
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@ -31972,10 +31965,6 @@ My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four.
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Unless there are three other people.
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-- Orson Welles
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there
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are three other people.
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-- Orson Welles
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My doctorate's in Literature, but it seems like a pretty good pulse to me.
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My experience with government is when things are non-controversial,
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@ -41158,7 +41147,7 @@ Test for paraquat:
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the solution will turn blue-green.
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Testing can show the presense of bugs, but not their absence.
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-- Dijkstra
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-- Edsger W. Dijkstra
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Test-tube babies shouldn't throw stones.
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@ -44757,7 +44746,7 @@ for incompetence.
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The problems of business administration in general, and database management in
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particular are much too difficult for people that think in IBMese, compounded
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with sloppy English.
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-- Edsger Dijkstra
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-- Edsger W. Dijkstra
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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid,
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stable business.
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@ -45693,7 +45682,7 @@ world put together.
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The use of anthropomorphic terminology when dealing with computing systems
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is a symptom of professional immaturity.
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-- Edsger Dijkstra
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-- Edsger W. Dijkstra
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%
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The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be
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regarded as a criminal offence.
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@ -50036,7 +50025,7 @@ We can embody the truth, but we cannot know it.
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We can found no scientific discipline, nor a healthy profession on the
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technical mistakes of the Department of Defense and IBM.
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-- Edsger Dijkstra
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-- Edsger W. Dijkstra
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We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
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-- Sir Francis Bacon
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