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• I was brought up in the other service; but I knew from the first that the Devil was my natural master and captain and friend.
  I saw that he was in the right, and that the world cringed to his conqueror only from fear....
• Whom the gods would destroy, they first teach BASIC.
• Whom the gods would destroy, they first teach Windows...
• Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
• Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book i, Line 1...
• Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first call promising. -- Cyril Connolly
• What the gods would destroy, they first submit to an IEEE standards committee.
• Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. -- Euripide