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• Meganegabar: the line you draw across "the amount" on a check.
• I'm not thrilled about flying.... We don't know how old the airplanes are and there's really no way for us to tell, 'cause we're laymen.
  But I figure if the plane smells like your grandmother's house, get out....
• Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
  -- Samuel Johnson, Letter to Lord Chesterfield, February 1755...
• QOTD: "This is a one line proof... if we start sufficiently far to the left.
• Contrasting this modest effort [of Seymour Cray in his laboratory to build the CDC 6600] with 34 people including the janitor with our vast development activitie
  I fail to understand why we have lost our industry leadership position by letting someone else offer the world's most powerful computer....
• No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.
  -- John Trumbull (1750-1831) -- McFingal, Canto iii, Line 489...
• There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over -- and to let go.
  It means leaving what's over without denying its validity or its past importance in our lives....
• Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle ii, Line 63...
• Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book vii, Line 364...