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Real Programmers don't play tennis, or any other sport that requires
you to change clothes. Mountain climbing is OK, and real programmers
wear their climbing boots to work in case a mountain should suddenly
spring up in the middle of the machine room.
If you don't want your dog to have bad breath, do what I do: Pour a little
Lavoris in the toilet.
-- Jay Leno
Slick's Three Laws of the Universe:
(1) Nothing in the known universe travels faster than a bad
check.
(2) A quarter-ounce of chocolate = four pounds of fat.
(3) There are two types of dirt: the dark kind, which is
attracted to light objects, and the light kind, which is
attracted to dark objects.
In the days when Sussman was a novice Minsky once came to him as he sat
hacking at the PDP-6. "What are you doing?", asked Minsky. "I am
training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe." "Why is the
net wired randomly?", asked Minsky. "I do not want it to have any
preconceptions of how to play." Minsky shut his eyes. "Why do you
close your eyes?", Sussman asked his teacher. "So the room will be
empty." At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.
Magpie, n.:
A bird whose thievish disposition suggested to someone that it
might be taught to talk.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you
don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.
-- Bruce Schneier
I had to censor everything my sons watched ... even on the Mary Tyler
Moore show I heard the word 'damn'!
-- Mary Lou Bax
Sunday, 8 March 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
