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- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!dm
- From: dm@think.com (dave mankins)
- Newsgroups: alt.quotations
- Subject: Re: Tolkien revised
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 22:21:03 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA (USA)
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- Message-ID: <1hvrofINNotb@early-bird.think.com>
- References: <1992Dec31.031545.16128@atlantis.uucp>
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- In article <1992Dec31.031545.16128@atlantis.uucp> aaron@atlantis.uucp writes:
- >Apologies if this has shown up before...
- >
- >"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to
- >anger." --Tolkien
-
- I don't know who coined the following:
-
- Do not meddle in the affairs of UNIX, for it is subtle and quick to
- core dump.
-
- --
- david mankins (dm@think.com)
- Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to find himself
- transformed into an enormous software defect.
-