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Go 'way! You're bothering me!
LSD melts in your mind, not in your hand.
If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody
will.
Office Automation, n.:
The use of computers to improve efficiency by removing anyone
you would want to talk with over coffee.
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden:
Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP
machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982
Some programming languages manage to absorb change but withstand
progress.
fortune's Contribution of the Month to the Animal Rights Debate:
I'll stay out of animals' way if they'll stay out of mine.
"Hey you, get off my plate"
-- Roger Midnight
It will be generally found that those who sneer habitually at human
nature and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant
examples.
-- Charles Dickens
Monday, 28 September 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
