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• A person who is more than casually interested in computers should be well schooled in machine language, since it is a fundamental part of a computer.
  -- Donald Knuth...
• DDT /D-D-T/ n. [from the insecticide para-dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethene] 1.
  Generic term for a program that assists in debugging other programs by showing individual machine instructions in a readable symbolic form and letting the user change them....
• The following appeared in the editorial section of an educational publication.
  "One study at Lee University found that first-semester grades of teenage students who had always attended public, tax-supported schools were slightly lower than the grades of students who had received some home schooling instruction by parents at home, although the grade differences disappeared in the second semester....
• TeX /tekh/ n. An extremely powerful macro-based text formatter written by Donald E.
  Knuth, very popular in the computer-science community (it is good enough to have displaced Unix troff, the other favored formatter, even at many Unix installations)....
• The difference between art and science is that science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer.
  Art is everything else. -- Donald Knuth, "Discove...
• Dear Emily: I'm still confused as to what groups articles should be posted to.
  How about an example? -- Still Confused Dear Still...
• The three dots '...' here suppress a lot of detail -- maybe I should have used four dots.
  -- Donald Knuth...
• Green's Theorem prov. [TMRC] For any story, in any group of people there will be at least one person who has not heard the story.
  A refinement of the theorem states that there will be exactly one person (if there were more than one, it wouldn't be as bad to re-tell the story)....
• Egotist, n.: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary...