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Drive defensively. Buy a tank.
It was the first thing that I formed a really powerful bond with.
It was some sort of mental love missile and I just lit the touch paper and
fired myself into it, at oblivious speed, and it exploded, and sparkled and it
was totally beautiful.
-- Chris Packham and the kestrel
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no
guarantee of eventual success.
Best of all is never to have been born. Second best is to die soon.
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher von Braun
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it
wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had
to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized
that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in
finding mistakes in my own programs.
-- Maurice Wilkes discovers debugging, 1949
Campus sidewalks never exist as the straightest line between two
points.
-- M. M. Johnston
When the Ngdanga tribe of West Africa hold their moon love ceremonies,
the men of the tribe bang their heads on sacred trees until they get a
nose bleed, which usually cures them of ____that.
-- Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac"
Sunday, 17 May 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
