Separate concatenated fortunes.
Remove unattributed duplicate of Frederick Brooks eternal words about the danger of second systems.
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@ -617,6 +617,7 @@ the back of your truck, and the other one is honking the horn!"
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her birthday. An hour later, when wandered through the house, he found her
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looking at a puddle in the center of the kitchen. "My pup," she murmured
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sadly, "runneth over."
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Catching his children with their hands in the new, still wet, patio,
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the father spanked them. His wife asked, "Don't you love your children?"
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"In the abstract, yes, but not in the concrete."
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A horse breeder has his young colts bottle-fed after they're three
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days old. He heard that a foal and his mummy are soon parted.
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A crow perched himself on a telephone wire. He was going to make a
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long-distance caw.
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A musical reviewer admitted he always praised the first show of a
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new theatrical season. "Who am I to stone the first cast?"
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A hard-luck actor who appeared in one colossal disaster after another
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finally got a break, a broken leg to be exact. Someone pointed out that it's
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the first time the poor fellow's been in the same cast for more than a week.
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@ -767,14 +771,19 @@ something? It sounds to me like you have no problems at all."
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my 'gator."
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A man who keeps stealing mopeds is an obvious cycle-path.
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A man pleaded innocent of any wrong doing when caught by the police
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during a raid at the home of a mobster, excusing himself by claiming that he
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was making a bolt for the door.
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A farm in the country side had several turkeys, it was known as the
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house of seven gobbles.
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A man was reading The Canterbury Tales one Saturday morning, when his
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wife asked "What have you got there?" Replied he, "Just my cup and Chaucer."
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A women was in love with fourteen soldiers, it was clearly platoonic.
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Max told his friend that he'd just as soon not go hiking in the hills.
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Said he, "I'm an anti-climb Max."
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@ -1245,24 +1254,6 @@ perfect Latin. The crowd doesn't understand a word of it, but they're
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impressed and they cheer again. The Russian astronaut stomps out, clenches
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the podium until his knuckles turn white, glares at the first row and
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screams: "Anybody got a match?"
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An architect's first work is apt to be spare and clean. He
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knows he doesn't know what he's doing, so he does it carefully
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and with great restraint.
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As he designs the first work, frill after frill and
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embellishment after embellishment occur to him. These get
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stored away to be used "next time." Sooner or later the first system
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is finished, and the architect, with firm confidence and a demonstrated
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mastery of that class of systems, is ready to build a second system.
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This second is the most dangerous system a man ever designs.
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When he does his third and later ones, his prior experiences will
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confirm each other as to the general characteristics of such systems,
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and their differences will identify those parts of his experience that
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are particular and not generalizable.
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The general tendency is to over-design the second system, using
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all the ideas and frills that were cautiously sidetracked on the first
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one. The result, as Ovid says, is a "big pile."
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-- Frederick Brooks, "The Mythical Man Month"
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An architect's first work is apt to be spare and clean. He knows
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he doesn't know what he's doing, so he does it carefully and with great
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@ -1280,6 +1271,7 @@ generalizable.
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The general tendency is to over-design the second system, using all
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the ideas and frills that were cautiously sidetracked on the first one.
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The result, as Ovid says, is a "big pile".
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-- Frederick Brooks, "The Mythical Man Month"
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An eighty-year-old woman is rocking away the afternoon on her
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porch when she sees an old, tarnished lamp sitting near the steps. She
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