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![](/images/empty.gif) | #3246 | ![](/images/empty.gif) | "The urge to destroy is also a creative urge." -- Bakunin [ed. note - I would say: The urge to destroy may sometimes be a creative urge.]
| ![](/images/empty.gif) | #3247 | ![](/images/empty.gif) | "A commercial, and in some respects a social, doubt has been started within the last year or two, whether or not it is right to discuss so openly the security or insecurity of locks. Many well-meaning persons suppose that the discus- sion respecting the means for baffling the supposed safety of locks offers a premium for dishonesty, by showing others how to be dishonest. This is a fal- lacy. Rogues are very keen in their profession, and already know much more than we can teach them respecting their several kinds of roguery. Rogues knew a good deal about lockpicking long before locksmiths discussed it among them- selves, as they have lately done. If a lock -- let it have been made in what- ever country, or by whatever maker -- is not so inviolable as it has hitherto been deemed to be, surely it is in the interest of *honest* persons to know this fact, because the *dishonest* are tolerably certain to be the first to apply the knowledge practically; and the spread of knowledge is necessary to give fair play to those who might suffer by ignorance. It cannot be too ear- nestly urged, that an acquaintance with real facts will, in the end, be better for all parties." -- Charles Tomlinson's Rudimentary Treatise on the Construction of Locks, published around 1850
| ![](/images/empty.gif) | #3248 | ![](/images/empty.gif) | In respect to lock-making, there can scarcely be such a thing as dishonesty of intention: the inventor produces a lock which he honestly thinks will possess such and such qualities; and he declares his belief to the world. If others differ from him in opinion concerning those qualities, it is open to them to say so; and the discussion, truthfully conducted, must lead to public advantage: the discussion stimulates curiosity, and curiosity stimu- lates invention. Nothing but a partial and limited view of the question could lead to the opinion that harm can result: if there be harm, it will be much more than counterbalanced by good." -- Charles Tomlinson's Rudimentary Treatise on the Construction of Locks, published around 1850.
| ![](/images/empty.gif) | #3249 | ![](/images/empty.gif) | "Wish not to seem, but to be, the best." -- Aeschylus
| ![](/images/empty.gif) | #3250 | ![](/images/empty.gif) | "Survey says..." -- Richard Dawson, weenie, on "Family Feud"
| ![](/images/empty.gif) | #3251 | ![](/images/empty.gif) | "Paul Lynde to block..." -- a contestant on "Hollywood Squares"
| ![](/images/empty.gif) | #3252 | ![](/images/empty.gif) | "Little else matters than to write good code." -- Karl Lehenbauer
| ![](/images/empty.gif) | #3253 | ![](/images/empty.gif) | To write good code is a worthy challenge, and a source of civilized delight. -- stolen and paraphrased from William Safire
| ![](/images/empty.gif) | #3254 | ![](/images/empty.gif) | "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -- William E. Davidsen
| ![](/images/empty.gif) | #3255 | ![](/images/empty.gif) | "If a computer can't directly address all the RAM you can use, it's just a toy." -- anonymous comp.sys.amiga posting, non-sequitir
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