“I'm bothered by the fact that stupid people don't spontaneously combust, which they should.”

— Erik Naggum

Re: A draft business plan for free software LISP vendors http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/3bb9094cbc310a0f (Usenet article).
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Norwegian computer programmer 1965–2009

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