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• If in any problem you find yourself doing an immense amount of work, the answer can be obtained by simple inspection.
• A castaway was washed ashore after many days on the open sea.
  The island on which he landed was populated by savage cannibals who tied him, dazed and exhausted, to a thick stake....
• Nor peace nor ease the heart can know Which, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But turning, trembles too.
  -- Mrs. Greville (c. 1793) -- A Prayer for Indifference...
• Chekov: "Why not simply waperize them?" Valeris: "Like this?
  At ease. As you know, Commander Chekov, no one can fire an unauthorized phaser aboard a starship....
• Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things "which cannot be shared
  and if they raise themselves to a point where they adopt an abstract principle superior to their egotism....
• ource of all good bits n. A person from whom (or a place from which) useful information may be obtained.
  If you need to know about a program, a guru might be the source of all good bits....
• ource of all good bits: n. A person from whom (or a place from which) useful information may be obtained.
  If you need to know about a program, a {guru} might be the source of all good bits....
• Law of the Marketplace: If only one price can be obtained for any quotation, the price will be unreasonable.
• The primary reason that innumeracy is so pernicious is the ease with which numbers are invoked to bludgeon the innumerate into dumb acquiescence.