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But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses.
-- Bruce Leverett, "Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers"

Covering all your bases

I've always wondered what YMCA stood for. :)

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George Bush hates midgets.
-- Chris Rock

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Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
-- Oscar Wilde

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Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents' beds, unerringly I rush!
-- Captain Ahab, Moby Dick

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All generalizations are false, including this one.
-- Mark Twain

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So so is good, very good, very excellent good:
and yet it is not; it is but so so.
-- William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"

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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H.L. Mencken, on Shakespeare

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echo "Hmmm...you don't have Berkeley networking in libc.a..."
echo "but the Wollongong group seems to have hacked it in."
-- Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution

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I tell ya, I was an ugly kid. I was so ugly that my dad kept the kid's picture that came with the wallet he bought.
-- Rodney Dangerfield