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• Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for which the only specification is that it should run noiselessly.
• If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. -- Edith Wharto
• Trying to get Windows to run on the hardware that Linux typically runs on is like pushing an elephant through a keyhole.
  -- Forbes Magazine...
• Is life trying to pass me by or run me over??
• like nailing jelly to a tree: adj. Used to describe a task thought to be impossible, esp.
  one in which the difficulty arises from poor specification or inherent slipperiness in the problem domain....
• Trying to program in MS-DOS is like trying to play tennis in a closet.