Richard Moriarty wrote:

I could do away with the students, burn the carrels and tables and
journals and evil book-supplanting computers and get more shelves, but
there could be complaints.

I've known several system admins who have claimed
(only half in jest, I think) that their work is only
a second-best to the much-more-efficacious approach
of just turning off all the computers and going home.


Jeff