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$res[0] = '<td align=center bgcolor="white">An annotation a day keeps the cracker away.' ;

$res[1] = '<td align=left bgcolor="white"><font size=-1>If J. Random Websurfer clicks on a button that promises
dancing pigs on his computer monitor, and instead gets a hortatory
message describing the potential dangers of the applet &#150; he&#39;s going to
choose dancing pigs over computer security any day. If the computer
prompts him with a warning screen like: "The applet DANCING PIGS could
contain malicious code that might do permanent damage to your computer,
steal your life&#39;s savings, and impair your ability to have children,"
he&#39;ll click "OK" without even reading it. Thirty seconds later he won&#39;t
even remember that the warning screen even existed.  &mdash; Bruce Schneier,
<em>Secrets and Lies</em></font>';

$res[2] = '<td align=center bgcolor="white"><font size=-1>
<em>Normal people learn from their errors. Microsoft users apparently
belong to another category.</em><br> &mdash; 
Charles Bueche (quoted in <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2561891,00.html">ILOVEYOU worm turns to States</a>)
</font>
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$res[3] = '<td align=left bgcolor="white"><font size=-1><tt>IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!<br>
Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)!<br>
It is also possible that the host key has just been changed.<br>
Please contact your system administrator.<br>
Add correct host key in /af10/evans/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this message.<br>
Agent forwarding is disabled to avoid attacks by corrupted servers.<br>
X11 forwarding is disabled to avoid attacks by corrupted servers.<br>
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes</tt><br>&mdash;
SSH Error Message</font>';

$res[4] = '<td align=left bgcolor="white"><font size=-1><em>Real mathematics has no effects on war.  No one has
yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of
numbers.</em> &mdash; G. H. Hardy, <em>The Mathematician&#39;s Apology</em>, 1940.</font>';

$res[5] = '<td align=center bgcolor="white"><font size=-1><em>Since human beings themselves are not fully debugged yet, there will be
bugs in your code no matter what you do.</em> &mdash; Chris Mason,
Zero-defects memo (quoted in <em>Microsoft Secrets</em>, Cusumano and
Selby)</font>' ;

$res[6]='<td align=center bgcolor="white"><font size=-1><em>Two types have compatible type
if their types are the same.</em><br>&mdash; ANSI C Standard, 3.1.2.6.</font>' ;

$res[7] = '<td align=right bgcolor="white"><font size=-1><em>Yea, from the table of my memory I&#39;ll wipe away all trivial fond
records, all saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, that youth
and observation copied there.</em><br>
&mdash; Hamlet, Act I,  Scene v</font>';

$res[8] = '<td align=right bgcolor="white"><font size=-1><em>&#39;Tis in my memory lock&#39;d, and you yourself shall keep the key of it.</em><br>
&mdash; Ophelia in Hamlet, Act I, Scene iii</font>';


$res[9] = '<td align=center bgcolor="white"><font size=-1><em>The decision to retain the old six-character case-insensitive
restriction on significance was most painful.</em><br>
&mdash;ANSI C Rationale</font></font>';

$res[10] = '<td align=center bgcolor="white"><font size=-1><em>A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his
client to plant vines.</em><br>
&mdash;Frank Lloyd Wright</font>';

$res[11] = '<td align=left bgcolor="white"><font size=-1><em>
That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for
the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his
condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by
nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space,
without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which
we breath, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement
or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a
subject of property. </em><br>
&mdash;Thomas Jefferson, open source pioneer</font>';

$res[12] = '<td align=center bgcolor="white"><font size=-1><em>
I never comment on referees and I&#39;m not going to break the habit of a
lifetime for that prat.
</em><br>
&mdash; Ron Atkinson
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$res[13] = '<td align=right bgcolor="white"><font size=-1><em>
The problem with you son, is that your brains are all in your
head.
</em><br>
&mdash; Liverpool manager <a href="http://www.vinstra.vgs.no/shankly/">Bill Shankly</a> to a young trainee</font>' ;

$res[14] = '<td align=right bgcolor="white"><font size=-1><em>
Every reader should ask himself periodically "Toward what end, toward
what end?" --- but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of
programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
</em><br>
&mdash; From Alan Perlis&#39; forward to Abelson and Sussman, 
 <a
href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/sicp/book/book.html">
<em>Structure
and Interpretation of Computer Programs</em></a></font>' ;


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