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THEORY
Into love and out again,
Thus I went and thus I go.
Spare your voice, and hold your pen:
Well and bitterly I know
All the songs were ever sung,
All the words were ever said;
Could it be, when I was young,
Someone dropped me on my head?
-- Dorothy Parker
Asked by reporters about his upcoming marriage to a forty-two-year-old
woman, director Roman Polanski told reporters, `The way I look at it,
she's the equivalent of three fourteen-year-olds.'
-- David Letterman
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
-- Jules Feiffer
On the subject of C program indentation:
"In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be
indented six feet downward and covered with dirt."
-- Blair P. Houghton
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to
speak it to?
-- Clarence Darrow
Arnold's Laws of Documentation:
(1) If it should exist, it doesn't.
(2) If it does exist, it's out of date.
(3) Only documentation for useless programs transcends the
first two laws.
Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which
otherwise require harder thinking.
-- Jerome Lettvin
The Roman Rule
The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the
one who is doing it.
Thursday, 11 December 2025 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org