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-- Humor (sometimes unintended) on the Emacs developer's list --
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"Is it legal for a `struct interval' to have a total_length field of
serious effort', reminiscent of mathematicians' use of 'trivial' as
synonymous with 'provable with serious effort'?"
-- RMS and David Kastrup
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+Re: New Emacs Icon and Tango
+
+ "What about using the 'happy face' with gnu horns?"
+ "It would make Emacs the object of ridicule until the end of time."
+ "Isn't it already?"
+ "It's the object of ridicule until the end of _tape_. The jury is
+still out about that end of time thing."
+ -- Kim F. Storm, Miles Bader, RMS and David Kastrup
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+ "Despite being a maths graduate, I can't think of any other such
+constants with anything like the universality of e and pi."
+ "42"
+ -- Alan Mackenzie and David Hansen
+
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+
+ "[...] So please do not delete anything."
+ "Done."
+ -- RMS and David Kastrup
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+ "I guess that can work in some circumstances, but it bypasses the
+printer drivers. Couldn't that lead to problems for the printer
+drivers?"
+ "Current research is that software does not suffer feelings of
+depression or loneliness when it is left out of the picture, so I
+wouldn't worry about it too much."
+ -- Lennart Borgman and Jason Rumney