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 You reach the level of acceptable performance when no one complains at you any more. 
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 I used to work in formal semantics. My friends ask me what I'm doing now, and I say, "I'm working on an electronic mail system," and they say, "Too bad." 
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 Its predecessor is somewhere off in the great beyond. 
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 A terminal node is not one that is about to die. 
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 Why are we doing this? Because there are some neat theorems to be proved at the end of this course. 
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 He probably wanted to get to the point where he could define PL/I on one side of a 3x5 card. 
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 Well, I'm not going to talk about string quartets today. 
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 We haven't said anything and we've said everything. 
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 By the time you read the details, you should either be completely lost, or completely understand what is going on. 
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