Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and
they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment
to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the
moon.
-- H.L. Mencken
they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment
to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the
moon.
-- H.L. Mencken
Related:
- A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call
what he writes fiction.
William... - Engineers think that equations approximate the real world.
Scientists think that the real world approximates equations... - Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman,
that she was born so long ago. -- H. L.... - If you think things can't get worse it's probably only
because you lack sufficient imagination... - Real programmers scorn floating point arithmetic.
The decimal point was invented for pansy bed-wetters... - We think as we do, mainly because other people think so.
Samuel... - Jargon Coiner (#12)
An irregular feature that aims to give you advance warning of new jargon
that we've just made up.
* IPO (I've Patented the Obvious): Acquiring patents... - I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker,
but simply because I detest the sort of people who... - Invertebrate Punster--Spinelessly unable to resist a
pun-
So slug me...
From the same category:
- Paranoia is heightened
awareness... - What's this I hear about van pyres and wooden
steaks... - I'd buy that for a bar of gold-pressed
latinum... - Decisions of the judges will be final unless shouted down by a really over-
whelming majority of the crowd present. Abusive and... - Someone will try to honk your nose
today...
