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Basically, to learn Unix you learn to understand and apply a small set of key ideas and achieve expertise by expanding both the set of ideas and your ability to apply them
-- Paul Murphy
Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity.
-- Paul Biron
"Murphy's Law only fails when you try to demonstrate it."
"Ergotism is what you get if you overuse the word "therefore". Egotism on the other hand is a form of "I" strain."
-- Paul Martin
Seeing is forgetting the name of that which one sees.
-- Paul Valery
If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
-- Paul Beatty
Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
-- Paul Simon
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre
"Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth."
-- Jean-Paul Sartre
Murphy's Seventh Law of Computing:
He who laughs last probably made a back-up.
Murphy's Pharmaceutcal Law:
Only Adults have difficulty with child-proof bottles.
"Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game."
-- Paul Rodriguez
"When ET left, he told Drew Barrymore to be good. Boy, is he gonna be surprised when he comes back."
-- Paul Rocci
Murphy's First Law of Computing:
Whatever happens, behave as though you meant it to happen.
"Rebellion is almost as stupid as obedience. In either case you let yourself be defined by what they tell you to do."
-- Paul Graham
Murphy's Eleventh Law of Computing:
A computer program will follow your orders, but rarely your intentions.
"The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education."
-- Paul Karl Feyerabend
Murphy's Law of Research:
Enough research, as well as insufficient research, will tend to support your theory.
Intuition comes from experience, that experience comes from failure, and that failure comes from trying.
-- Paul Snively (Lambda the Ultimate weblog)
If a tree falls in a forest and lands on a politician, even if you can't hear the tree or the screams, I'll bet you'd at least hear the applause.
-- Paul Tindale
"Do you know a cow was murdered to make that jacket?"
"I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I guess I'll have to kill you too."
-- Paul Crowley
"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."

"It is up to you to give [life] a meaning."
-- Jean-Paul Sartre
If the moon hit your eye like a big pizza pie, it might be amor�, but I'd be more worried about the interplanetary gravitational effects from this cataclysmic event.
-- Paul Paternoster