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The Soviet pre-eminence in chess can be traced to the average Russian's readiness to brood obsessively over anything, even the arrangement of some pieces of wood.
Indeed, the Russians' predispositio...
The Tao gave birth to machine language. Machine language gave birth to the assembler.
The assembler gave birth to the compiler. Now there are ten thousand languages....
The way my jeweler explained it, it's like insurance.
Six months' pay isn't much to keep my wife from sleeping around....
The wise programmer is told about the Tao and follows it.
The average programmer is told about the Tao and searches for it....
THE WOMBAT The wombat lives across the seas, Among the far Antipodes.
He may exist on nuts and berries, Or then again, on missionarie...
The world's most avid baseball fan (an Aggie) had arrived at the stadium for the first game of the World Series only to realize he had left his ticket at home.
Not wanting to miss any of the first i...
Them Toad Suckers How 'bout them toad suckers, ain't they clods?
Sittin' there suckin' them green toady frogs!...
Then a man said: Speak to us of Expectations. He then said
If a man does not see or hear the waters of the Jordan, then he should not taste the pomegranate or ply his wares in an open market....
Then there's the atmosphere -- half the time you can eat the air, it's got so much stuff floating around in it.
It takes the edge out of the colors. Down here even the traffic lights are pastel. A...
Then there's the story of the man who avoided reality for 70 years with drugs, sex, alcohol, fantasy, TV, movies, records, a hobby, lots of sleep.
.. And on his 80th birthday died without ever having...

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