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It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

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I am a very bottom-up thinker.

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We are seeing the problems across the board. The fungus took advantage of the rain quicker than the grass.

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We're proud of our record fourth-quarter results and fourth consecutive year of double-digit earnings increases despite rising funding costs and related industry-wide pressure on margins.

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If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.

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The bottom line for us is we are experiencing excellent revenue growth..., ... We have good expectations for the fourth quarter and all of 2006.

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My background for obtaining these ideas was uh, there was a I went to the school at Berkeley and there was a thing called Project Genie at Berkeley.

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Outside of operating systems in general tend to operate on programs and they have to somehow turn the notion of data and programs inside out.

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No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.

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We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records.

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It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

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In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.

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I am a programmer.

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Jerry is an extraordinary leader who has the experience and talent to help propel this division forward. He is known among his peers and team as a thoughtful and analytical leader who brings a strong base of diverse banking experience to the role. I am confident that Jerry will continue to manage this division efficiently and partner effectively with other Wachovia leaders to support our customer service and business growth goals. We are incredibly fortunate to have an individual with Jerry's talents assume this position for Wachovia.

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We're an International truck dealer, sales, parts and service.

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I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.

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Nature conservation can seem so remote. But in your own garden you can make a difference and you can enjoy that difference.

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Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress.

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We have persistant objects, they're called files.

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He had a passion since he was a little kid to fly.

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The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.

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One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.

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I don't think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven't really had experience with.

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There seems to be no public policy purpose for the zoning that is there ... This whole thing just smacks of special interest politics.

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So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again.

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