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The problem with engineers is that they tend to cheat in order to get
results.
The problem with mathematicians is that they tend to work on toy
problems in order to get results.
The problem with program verifiers is that they tend to cheat at toy
problems in order to get results.
I am not now, and never have been, a girlfriend of Henry Kissinger.
-- Gloria Steinem
His mind is like a steel trap -- full of mice.
-- Foghorn Leghorn
There is no such thing as fortune. Try again.
Real World, The n.:
1. In programming, those institutions at which programming may
be used in the same sentence as FORTRAN, COBOL, RPG, IBM, etc. 2. To
programmers, the location of non-programmers and activities not related
to programming. 3. A universe in which the standard dress is shirt and
tie and in which a person's working hours are defined as 9 to 5.
4. The location of the status quo. 5. Anywhere outside a university.
"Poor fellow, he's left MIT and gone into the real world." Used
pejoratively by those not in residence there. In conversation, talking
of someone who has entered the real world is not unlike talking about a
deceased person.
Without ice cream life and fame are meaningless.
Absentee, n.:
A person with an income who has had the forethought to remove
himself from the sphere of exaction.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Chef, n.:
Any cook who swears in French.
Wednesday, 12 August 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
