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Many years ago I read the fantastic book, Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made: Andy Hertzfeld: 9780596007195: Amazon.com: Books[^] by Andy Hertzfeld (one of the original and leading creators of the Mac).
Now, the past few days I've been reading over Andy's web site that inspired that book and I just read the following entry which is absolutely hilarious.
Andy Hertzfeld: Steve had managed to get Don Knuth, the legendary Stanford professor of computer science, to give a lunchtime lecture to the Mac team. Knuth is the author of at least a dozen books, including the massive and somewhat impenetrable trilogy "The Art of Computer Programming." (For an amusing look at Knuth's heady self image, and his $2.56 reward program, see http//www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/books.html)
I was sitting in Steve's office when Lynn Takahashi, Steve's assistant, announced Knuth's arrival. Steve bounced out of his chair, bounded over to the door and extended a welcoming hand.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Professor Knuth," Steve said. "I've read all of your books."
"You're full of sh*t," Knuth responded.
From => http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Close_Encounters_of_the_Steve_Kind.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date[^]
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All hail Knuth! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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raddevus wrote: "It's a pleasure to meet you, Professor Knuth," Steve said. "I've read all of your books."
"You're full of sh*t," Knuth responded.
My new hero.
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...At least according to the latest tzatzistics! 
Ba-Tish! Can't wait for barbecue season. Winter has made an unexpected and highly unwelcome comeback here in Sweden... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
modified 10-Apr-19 6:10am.
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Sure but... are there Retsina Greek pie?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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It's always barbeque season in Texas.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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#realJSOP wrote: It's always barbeque season in Texas.
A good reason for relocating there... 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Coulis, Sriracha, Mahyawa, tabasco, Halvaytar, Mignonette, Egusi, etc.
I have to agree that it's all Greek to me.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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European Computer Manufacturers Association Script.
So they write scripts to manufacture Computers?
Funny the name is still being followed. 
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Europe made computers? 
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glennPattonWork wrote: Europe made computers?
Yeah.. I mean the first one[^].
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That's one so & so, I would like to script for!!! 
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why make a script when they only built one of them?
were are they expecting lots of orders?
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Nand32 wrote: So they write scripts to manufacture Computers?
Nah, just the group having the ownership.
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(Long story, barely related because I've managed to link computer manufacturing with a "script"):
At my first job straight after college, I wrote a utility that gathered hardware/software information, and could output it to a database, and/or leave behind that information in a file for future tech support reps to use.
We licensed that software to a large(ish) US company that built computers for Fortune 500 companies - it became part of their "build script" - essentially a checklist of items that had to be done before a computer could be sent to a customer. Whenever a computer was brought back with a problem, the file my utility wrote is one of the first things some other software looked for to present to the person running some diagnostics.
I was once brought in to visit what is essentially the manufacturing floor - I don't know how many tens of thousands of square feet it was, but that was pretty impressive for the 20-something year old I was back then. Larger than your average Costco store.
The most surreal thing however is when I was introduced to some people as the guy who wrote the utility everyone on the floor was using and familiar with. I swear some of these guys came up to me to shake my hand like I was some sort of rock star. Apparently it saved them a tremendous amount of time - not hard work, but incredibly tedious and repetitive, so they were very happy to see that part of their job being automated.
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Carts furniture around to make the basis for development (14).
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Carts furniture around CARTSFURNITURE (anag)
to make the basis for development
INFRASTRUCTURE
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Of course. You're up tomorrow.
I could not find any time to come up with my own.
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87. Flower without shrouded evil creature (3)
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(MUM):chrysanthemum / mummy
but at first I was thinking:
IMP:Impatiens but it didn't make sense with 'shrouded'
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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ORC
ORCHID without HID
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yup 
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That was a nice one!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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