Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde Do not believe in miracles -- rely on them. Just because the message may never be received does not

All names listed are proprietary trademarks of their respective corporations. He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. -- M. C. Escher Agree with them now, it will save so much time.

The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. -- Nicholas Ambrose And he climbed with the lad up the Eiffelberg Tower.

Q: How do you keep a moron in suspense? your regularly scheduled programming...] -- Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution Amnesia used to be my favorite word, but then I forgot it. "Our

A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never. If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants. -- A. Einstein. Don't force it, get a larger hammer. -- Anthony

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime. -- Jimmy Cannon What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwords? :-) -- Larry Wall in [email protected] For gin,

To stay youthful, stay useful. I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. -- Aristotle Jim, it's Jack. I'm at the airport. I'm going to

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet. -- P. E. Trudeau Try to value useful qualities in one who loves you. Real Programmers don't write in FORTRAN. FORTRAN is for pipe stress freaks and

This sentence contradicts itself -- no actually it doesn't. -- Douglas Hofstadter Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. -- Joseph Heller,

Bathquake, n.: The violent quake that rattles the entire house when the water faucet is turned on to a certain point. -- Rich Hall, "Sniglets" You humans are all alike. When the ax entered the

Pohl's law: Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere, will not hate it. A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. --

1st graffitiist: QUESTION AUTHORITY! 2nd graffitiist: Why? The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite

Hindsight is always 20:20. -- Billy Wilder I never killed a man that didn't deserve it. -- Mickey Cohen Mitchell's Law of Committees: Any simple problem can be made insoluble if enough meetings are held

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from

Brandy-and-water spoils two good things. -- Charles Lamb I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. -- Isaac Asimov You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and think what nobody else has thought. divorce, n: A change of wife. She missed an invaluable opportunity to give him a look that you could have poured

"You say there are two types of people?" "Yes, those who separate people into two groups and those that don't." "Wrong. There are three groups: Those who separate people into three

Let us live!!! Let us love!!! Let us share the deepest secrets of our souls!!! You first. Vila: "I think I have just made the biggest mistake of my life." Orac: "It is unlikely. I would

I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some kind of loophole. -- Leo Kessler Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. -- Robert Frost, "The Death