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• eighty years later he could still recall with the young pang of his original joy his falling in love with Ada.
  -- Nabokov...
• Prophecy is the wit of a fool. -- Vladimir Nabokov
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  -- Vladimir Nabokov...
• Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov
• You heard about the man who quit playing golf, then took it up again fourteen years later?
  He found his ball. -- Bob Kaliba...
• A young married couple had their first child. Their original pride and joy slowly turned to concern however, for after a couple of years the child had never uttered any form of speech.
  They hired the best speech therapists, doctors, psychiatrists, all to no avail....
• A novice of the temple once approached the Chief Priest with a question.
  "Master, does Emacs have the Buddha nature?" the novice asked....
• In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, for even tho' vanquish'd he could argue still.
  -- Oliver Goldsmith...
• Pascal n. An Algol-descended language designed by Niklaus Wirth on the CDC 6600 around 1967-68 as an instructional tool for elementary programming.
  This language, designed primarily to keep students from shooting themselves in the foot and thus extremely restrictive from a general-purpose-programming point of view, was later promoted as a general-purpose tool and, in fact, became the ancestor of a large family of languages including Modula-2 and Ada (see also bondage-and-discipline l summed up by a devastating (and, in its deadpan way, screamingly funny) 1981 paper by Brian Kernighan (of K&...