Shridhar Daithankar [Thursday, March 01, 2001 4:52 PM]

> TANSTAAFL = There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch

This is from one of the best books ever written - Robert A Heinlein's "The
Moon is a Harsh Mistress".

Another Heinlein book (Stranger in a Strange Land) produced "grok" -
another jargon file entry, which means "to completely understand".

http://www.rahul.net/~falk is a nice place to look - though the ultimate is
of course Eric Steven Raymond's jargon file at <http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr>

        -s


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