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Drugs may be the road to nowhere, but at least they're the scenic route!
Mohandas K. Gandhi often changed his mind publicly. An aide once asked
him how he could so freely contradict this week what he had said just
last week. The great man replied that it was because this week he knew
better.
There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and
dead armadillos.
-- Jim Hightower, Texas Agricultural Commissioner
One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers ... Each one owes
infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in
which he was born.
-- Francois Fenelon
This is the first numerical problem I ever did. It demonstrates the
power of computers:
Enter lots of data on calorie & nutritive content of foods. Instruct
the thing to maximize a function describing nutritive content, with a
minimum level of each component, for fixed caloric content. The
results are that one should eat each day:
1/2 chicken
1 egg
1 glass of skim milk
27 heads of lettuce.
-- Rev. Adrian Melott
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old
ones.
By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began
to suspect 'Hungry' ...
-- Gary Larson, "The Far Side"
Wednesday, 10 December 2025 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
