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| Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable. Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable. -- Gilb | |
| Risch's decision procedure for integration, not surprisingly, uses a recursion on the number and type of the extensions from the rational functions needed to represent the integrand. Although the algorithm follows and critically depends upon the appropriate structure of the input, as in the case of multivariate factorization, we cannot claim that the algorithm is a natural one. In fact, the creator of differential algebra, Ritt, committed suicide in the early 1950's, largely, it is claimed, because few paid attention to his work. Probably he would have received more attention had he obtained the algorithm as well. -- Joel Moses, "Algorithms and Complexity", ed. J.F. Traub | |
| The relative importance of files depends on their cost in terms of the human effort needed to regenerate them. -- T.A. Dolotta | |
| (1) Everything depends. (2) Nothing is always. (3) Everything is sometimes. | |
| How you look depends on where you go. | |
| How long does it take a DEC field service engineer to change a lightbulb? It depends on how many bad ones he brought with him. | |
| Once at a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli, "I predict, Sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease". Disraeli replied, "That all depends, Sir, upon whether I embrace your principles or your mistress." | |
| "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw | |
| Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders. -- Frank Herbert, "Children of Dune" | |
| Where you stand depends on where you sit. -- Rufus Miles, HEW | |
| Langsam's Laws: (1) Everything depends. (2) Nothing is always. (3) Everything is sometimes. | |
| Zall's Laws: (1) Any time you get a mouthful of hot soup, the next thing you do will be wrong. (2) How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on. | |
| We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge. -- George Will | |
| Traveling through New England, a motorist stopped for gas in a tiny village. "What's this place called?" he asked the station attendant. "All depends," the native drawled. "Do you mean by them that has to live in this dad-blamed, moth-eaten, dust-covered, one-hoss dump, or by them that's merely enjoying its quaint and picturesque rustic charms for a short spell?" | |
| The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. -- Jean-Paul Kauffmann | |
| The speed of anything depends on the flow of everything. | |
| We warn the reader in advance that the proof presented here depends on a clever but highly unmotivated trick. -- Howard Anton, "Elementary Linear Algebra" | |
| So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. -- William Carlos Williams, "The Red Wheel Barrow" | |
| Your nature demands love and your happiness depends on it. | |
| Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with. | |
| How long a minute is depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on. | |
| The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw | |
| What we see depends on mainly what we look for. -- John Lubbock | |
| In caring for others and serving heaven, There is nothing like using restraint. Restraint begins with giving up one's own ideas. This depends on Virtue gathered in the past. If there is a good store of Virtue, then nothing is impossible. If nothing is impossible, then there are no limits. If a man knows no limits, then he is fit to be a ruler. The mother principle of ruling holds good for a long time. This is called having deep roots and a firm foundation, The Tao of long life and eternal vision. | |
| Caveats: it's GNOME, be afraid, be very afraid of the Depends line -- James Troup | |
| Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders. -- Frank Herbert, "Children of Dune" | |
| "Cheshire-Puss," she began, "would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat. "I don't care much where--" said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat. | |
| If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. -- Richard Bach, "Illusions" | |
| Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it. -- Tom Lehrer | |
| > 1. is qmail as secure as they say? Depends on what they were saying, but most likely yes. -- Seen on debian-devel | |
| The POP3 server service depends on the SMTP server service, which failed to start because of the following error: The operation completed successfully. -- Windows NT Server v3.51 | |
| <dark> eat Depends: cook | eat-out. But eat-out is non-free so that's out. And cook Recommends: clean-pans. -- Seen on #Debian | |
| Depends on how you define "always". :-) -- Larry Wall in <199710211647.JAA17957@wall.org> | |
