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care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have

forgotten.

Robert Prisig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

19 Documentation Comments 481

Any member introducing a dog into the Society's premises shall be liable to a fine of £10.

Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed to be a cat.

Rule 46, Oxford Union Society (circa 1997)

The universe is made of stories, not atoms.

Muriel Rukeyser

20 The I/O Package 499

From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read

request.

Peter Williams

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

Virginia Woolf

21 Collections 567

Andrea: Unhappy the land that has no heroes.

Galileo: No, unhappy the land that needs heroes.

Bertolt Brecht, Life of Galileo

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of

stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

Henri Poincaré

22 Miscellaneous Utilities 623

The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.

Will Rogers

Computers are uselessthey can only give you answers.

Pablo Picasso

23 System Programming 661

Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;

But will they come when you do call for them?