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| "On a normal ascii line, the only safe condition to detect is a 'BREAK' - everything else having been assigned functions by Gnu EMACS." (By Tarl Neustaedter) | |
| Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. -- Steinbach | |
| Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. - Voltaire | |
| "For a male and female to live continuously together is... biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition." -- Robert Briffault | |
| Why don't somebody print the truth about our present economic condition? We spent years of wild buying on credit, everything under the sun, whether we needed it or not, and now we are having to pay for it, howling like a pet coon. This would be a great world to dance in if we didn't have to pay the fiddler. -- The Best of Will Rogers | |
| Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better. -- Foolish Dictionary | |
| Steinbach's Guideline for Systems Programming: Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. | |
| transfer, n.: A promotion you receive on the condition that you leave town. | |
| The first condition of immortality is death. -Stanislaw Lec | |
| Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. -- Voltaire | |
| Oh wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound. -- Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke | |
| Accept disgrace willingly. Accept misfortune as the human condition. What do you mean by "Accept disgrace willingly"? Accept being unimportant. Do not be concerned with loss or gain. This is called "accepting disgrace willingly." What do you mean by "Accept misfortune as the human condition"? Misfortune comes from having a body. Without a body, how could there be misfortune? Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things. | |
| For three years, the young attorney had been taking his brief vacations at this country inn. The last time he'd finally managed an affair with the innkeeper's daughter. Looking forward to an exciting few days, he dragged his suitcase up the stairs of the inn, then stopped short. There sat his lover with an infant on her lap! "Helen, why didn't you write when you learned you were pregnant?" he cried. "I would have rushed up here, we could have gotten married, and the baby would have my name!" "Well," she said, "when my folks found out about my condition, we sat up all night talkin' and talkin' and finally decided it would be better to have a bastard in the family than a lawyer." | |
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| He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hopes for the human condition is a fool. -- Albert Camus | |
| On a normal ascii line, the only safe condition to detect is a 'BREAK' - everything else having been assigned functions by Gnu EMACS. -- Tarl Neustaedter | |
| No, that's wrong too. Now there's a race condition between the rm and the mv. Hmm, I need more coffee. -- Guy Maor on Debian Bug#25228 | |
| It may be possible to get this condition from within Perl if a signal handler runs at just the wrong moment. Another point for Chip... :-) -- Larry Wall in <199710161546.IAA07885@wall.org> | |
| A distraught patient phoned her doctor's office. "Was it true," the woman inquired, "that the medication the doctor had prescribed was for the rest of her life?" She was told that it was. There was just a moment of silence before the woman proceeded bravely on. "Well, I'm wondering, then, how serious my condition is. This prescription is marked `NO REFILLS'". | |
| Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn't mean he knows what it is. | |
