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From: phil@unisoft.UUCP (phil ronzone)
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Subject: Re: Thought for the day & YALP
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Date: Fri, 13-Dec-85 01:24:41 EST
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In article <2377@amdahl.UUCP> esf00@amdahl.UUCP (Elliott S. Frank) writes:
>[. . .  urp!]
>
>> >If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, then the first
>> >woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
>> >              (freely stolen from somewhere- don't know the source)
>> >
>> "Most civil engineers never build a bridge that collapses."
>> 			      (C.A.R. Hoare)
>
>We build systems the way the Wright brothers built airplanes --
>tie them together with string and baling wire, toss them off the
>edge of a cliff, and see if they fly."
>               (first seen on someone's wall at CEEB, 1970)

Heard from an SNA (IBM networking (ha!) software) lecture given by CSI --
   If we built our phone systems the way IBM has built SNA, everytime
   some connected a new phone, we'd all have to hang up first.

YALP
   Seen in Cupertino  SI 2 AU

Porsche = the Silicon Valley Volkswagon