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  • GIGO: Garbage in, garbage out.

    -Anonymous
    c.1960  The great and seemingly most basic principle of the computer, coined anonymously sometime early in its development.

  • We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final stage of affluent miserya crocus on a garbage heap.

    -JohnWilliam Gardner
      In the NewYork Times, 9 Oct.

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