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I was surprised to learn that many computer virus programs have copyright notices embedded in them.
Applied to a computer virus, what could the concept of copyright possibly *mean*?...
I was taking a course with Lionel Trilling and wrote a paper for him with an opening sentence that contained a parenthesis.
He returned the paper with a wounding reprimand: "Never, never begin an e...
I was taking tickets at the movies when I got a phone call.
This woman said, "How much is a ticket?" And I said, "Four dollars....
I was talking during sex and my girlfriend hung up.
I was talking to a businessman, and I said, "Don't you think most men are little boys?
And he said, "I'm no little boy! I make seventy-five thousand dollars a year....
I was talking to an Englishman and I said, "It's absolutely remarkable.
In this day and age, you could fly to New York in six hours....
I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy. -- Marie Curie
I was terrible at history. I could never see the point of learning what people thought back when people were a lot stupider.
For instance, the ancient Phoenicians believed that the sun was carried a...
I was the first to dig the earth and make the rivers run backwards.
I was the first woman to burn mt bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

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