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help: If you help someone to do a job, you do part of it for them so that it can be finished more easily or more quickly. dictionary/52

... it seemed to me that helping Katrina's homeless victims ought to be the government's job, not mine. I'd always voted for candidates who … franzen/3

To Verlyn Klinkenborg, the professional trivialist whose job is to remind <cite>New York Times</cite> readers that spring follows winter and … franzen/9

Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of minix. (Linus Torvalds to Andrew … linux/61

I cannot IMAGINE why Penguin Books Ltd have put my name on their Lady Chatterley's Lover list. (Can you? After all, I'm only a children's … quotes/26

Since _engineer_ became a title of prestige in America, it has been assumed by a wide spectrum of charlatans. For a number of years the _Engineering … quotes/60

... a Perl script is correct if it's halfway readable and gets the job done before your boss fires you. Larry Wall and Randal L. Schwartz, _Programming … quotes/68

Bill Beckley: You were born in France, but you have lived a long time in the United States. What is the difference between the aesthetics of the two … quotes/125

A word about fact checking. Several hindsight artists have been quoted in the press saying that the New Republic's fact checkers should have caught … quotes/193

GR: The first movie you worked on was <cite>The Empire Strikes Back</cite>. How did you get the job at ILM? NRJ: Got a call to join Lucasfilm … quotes/370

Bertrand Russell used to employ the method of "evidence against interest"; in other words of deciding that a critique of capital punishment, … quotes/440

Beginning in 1984, when he started Def Jam Recordings, until his more recent occupation as a career-transforming, chart-topping, Grammy Award-winning … quotes/468

At least two of Slate's editors are on record, though, deriding the institution of the "fact checking department." And Slate does not … quotes/504