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@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ Dow’s Law: In a hierarchical organization, the higher the level,
the greater the confusion.
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Option Paralysis: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none.
-— Douglas Coupland, “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated”
+— Douglas Coupland, “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”
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Slous’ Contention: If you do a job too well, you’ll get stuck with it.
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@@ -3548,3 +3548,67 @@ You may be marching to the beat of a different
drummer, but you’re still in the parade.
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You have junk mail.
+%
+To do two things at once is to do neither.
+— Publilius Syrus
+%
+If life is merely a joke, the question still
+remains: for whose amusement?
+%
+The reward for working hard is more hard work.
+%
+Nobody said computers were going to be polite.
+%
+Tell me what to think!
+%
+Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet
+deprecate agitation, are men who want rain
+without thunder and lightning. They want the
+ocean without the roar of its many waters. —
+Frederick Douglass
+%
+Never underestimate the power of somebody with
+source code, a text editor, and the willingness
+to totally hose their system. — Rob Landley
+%
+Now I lay me back to sleep.
+The speaker’s dull; the subject’s deep.
+If he should stop before I wake,
+Give me a nudge for goodness’ sake.
+— Anonymous
+%
+“Man is the only animal that can remain on
+friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat
+until he eats them.” — Samuel Butler, The Note
+Books of Samuel Butler
+%
+Stein’s Law: If something cannot go on forever,
+it will stop.
+%
+Internet: Amazon
+%
+A fool uttereth all his mind. — Proverbs
+%
+Is nepotism a crime?
+%
+Mole problems? Call Avogadro at 6.02 x 10^23.
+%
+Position. Velocity. Acceleration. Jerk. Snap.
+Crackle. Pop.
+%
+Nihilism: The belief that life is meaningless.
+%
+It’s easier to fool people than to convince
+them that they have been fooled.
+%
+If everyone is thinking alike then somebody
+isn’t thinking. — George S. Patton
+%
+Krishnamurti said, “It’s no measure of health
+to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick
+society.” — Mark Vonnegut, The Eden Express:
+A Memoir of Insanity
+%
+Matthew Effect: For whosoever hath, to him shall
+be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall
+be taken even that which he seemeth to have.