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Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort.
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Anti-glare screens to prevent eyestrain??? In my day, you didn't need an anti-glare screen. With the power they consumed, when you turned your computer on, the whole building darkened!
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Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner.
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Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.
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Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with.
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Excellent, there's nothing quite like a blunt object to reinforce proper administration ethics.
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It ain't the picture and it ain't the camera - it's the operator.
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It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after' and the rest of the book was blank.
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It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.
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Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things.
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Life isn't a video machine. It doesn't have a rewind, stop, pause, or an edit/re-record button.
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Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.
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Now sometimes I think that booze is like a mental microfiche reader and as you add alcohol the magnification just increases.
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Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important.
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On the bus of MY life, sometimes I drive, sometimes I'm just a passenger and other times (like now) I'm a tour guide.
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Retrospect is the rear-view mirror of life. Don't spend too much time looking in it or you'll miss out on the IMPORTANT STUFF that's coming up.
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Some days I just look at my Inbox and feel uninspired. Stacked ahead of me are the dull and mundane tasks that'd bore anyone with an IQ higher than their pants size.
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The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.
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The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some people then think it's not an isolated occurrence.
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There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet.
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What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.

Biography

Simon Travaglia is best known as the author of the Bastard Operator From Hell stories, about a rogue system administrator. He presently works at Waikato University, Waikato, New Zealand as ITS Infrastructure Manager.

Books by Simon Travaglia


* The Bastard Operator From Hell (Plan Nine, ISBN 1-929462-17-4)
* Bastard Operator From Hell II: Son of the Bastard (Plan Nine, ISBN 1-929462-40-9)
* Bride of the Bastard Operator From Hell (Plan Nine, ISBN 1-929462-48-4)
* Dummy Mode Is Forever (Plan Nine, ISBN 1-929462-63-8)

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