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Washington [D.C.] is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy
Shaw's Principle:
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will
want to use it.
Has everyone noticed that all the letters of the word "database" are
typed with the left hand? Now the layout of the QWERTYUIOP typewriter
keyboard was designed, among other things, to facilitate the even use
of both hands. It follows, therefore, that writing about databases is
not only unnatural, but a lot harder than it appears.
Automobile, n.:
A four-wheeled vehicle that runs up hills and down pedestrians.
There are people so addicted to exaggeration
that they can't tell the truth without lying.
-- Josh Billings
The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on
weather forecasters.
-- Jean-Paul Kauffmann
When in panic, fear and doubt,
Drink in barrels, eat, and shout.
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
Thursday, 21 May 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
