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A dozen, a gross, and a score, Plus three times the square root of four, Divided by seven, Plus five time eleven, Equals nine squared plus zero, no more.
A famous Lisp Hacker noticed an Undergraduate sitting in front of a Xerox 1108, trying to edit a complex Klone network via a browser.
Wanting to help, the Hacker clicked one of the nodes in the netw...
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
-- Winston Churchill...
A fool must now and then be right by chance.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.
Hence University education. -- G. B. Shaw...
A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble
hen you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant....
A formal parsing algorithm should not always be used. -- D. Grie
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. -- Adlai Stevenso
A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome.
Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathi...
A general leading the State Department resembles a dragon commanding ducks.
-- New York Times, Jan. 20, 1981...

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