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Bore, n.:
A guy who wraps up a two-minute idea in a two-hour vocabulary.
-- Walter Winchell
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all
purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to start
with? Many people think that a very abstract activity, like the
playing of chess, would be best. It can also be maintained that it is
best to provide the machine with the best sense organs that money can
buy, and then teach it to understand and speak English.
-- Alan M. Turing
Basic is a high level languish.
APL is a high level anguish.
Good night to spend with family, but avoid arguments with your mate's
new lover.
I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
We all know political bumper stickers and some of us even put them on
our cars. However, if you show up at headquarters on Friday afternoon
after a long campaign week, you're more likely to see a stumper
bicker.
... This striving for excellence extends into people's personal lives
as well. When '80s people buy something, they buy the best one, as
determined by (1) price and (2) lack of availability. Eighties people
buy imported dental floss. They buy gourmet baking soda. If an '80s
couple goes to a restaurant where they have made a reservation three
weeks in advance, and they are informed that their table is available,
they stalk out immediately, because they know it is not an excellent
restaurant. If it were, it would have an enormous crowd of
excellence-oriented people like themselves waiting, their beepers going
off like crickets in the night. An excellent restaurant wouldn't have
a table ready immediately for anybody below the rank of Liza Minnelli.
-- Dave Barry, "In Search of Excellence"
Rocky's Lemma of Innovation Prevention
Unless the results are known in advance, funding agencies will
reject the proposal.
Friday, 24 July 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
