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Writing a portable OS is not much harder than a nonportable one, and all systems should be written with portability in mind these days.

— Andrew S. Tanenbaum

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Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process.

A refund for defective software might be nice, except it would bankrupt the entire software industry in the first year.

The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from.

"He" should be read as "he or she" throughout the book.

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Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

Strength of creative writing lies in the skill of handling words and articulating artistic expression of feelings.”

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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Robert Benchley

Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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