Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new features.
“I suggest that we should not take too seriously anyone who can sense an insinuation in every advertising statement, and for whom a phallic symbol is anything longer than it is wide.”
― How to Become a Federal Criminal: An Illustrated Handbook for the Aspiring Offender
― How to Become a Federal Criminal: An Illustrated Handbook for the Aspiring Offender
“AS far as it could, the Senate allowed events to take their course, intervening only when absolutely necessary.”
― Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
― Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
“possessing distilling equipment on a boat is a crime”
― How to Become a Federal Criminal: An Illustrated Handbook for the Aspiring Offender
― How to Become a Federal Criminal: An Illustrated Handbook for the Aspiring Offender
“During one never-to-be-forgotten confrontation over a debt crisis in 493 BC, the entire population withdrew its labor. The plebs evacuated Rome and encamped on a neighboring hill. It was an inspired tactic. The Patricians were left in charge—but of empty streets.”
― Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
― Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
“Fullers were the Roman equivalents of laundry and dry-cleaning firms: soap had not been invented and clothes were bleached with human and animal urine”
― Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
― Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
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