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• It seemed like the thing to do at the time." -- Law of Historical Causation -- Michael Uhlma
• A key to the understanding of all religions is that a God's idea of a good time is a game of Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs.
• All good management is the expression of one great idea.
• Every revolutionary idea - in science, politics, art, or whatever - evokes three stages of reaction in a heare
  --It is completely impossible - don't waste my time....
• If ignorance is no excuse, what good is it?
• Any excuse to wear a sword is a good excuse
• Somehow / It all seemed / So worthwhile...
• Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse. -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A.
  Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• Clarke's Law of Revolutionary Ideas Every revolutionary idea - in Science, Politics, Art or Whatever - evokes three stages of reaction.
  They may be summed up by the three phrases: 1) "It is completely impossible -- don't waste my time....