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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and
miss
-- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we
can perform without thinking about them.
-- Alfred North Whitehead, An Introduction to Mathematics (1911)
The First Rule of Program Optimization:
Don't do it.
The Second Rule of Program Optimization (for experts only!):
Don't do it yet.
-- Michael Jackson
Logicians have but ill defined
As rational the human kind.
Logic, they say, belongs to man,
But let them prove it if they can.
-- Oliver Goldsmith
Genderplex, n.:
The predicament of a person in a restaurant who is unable to
determine his or her designated restroom (e.g., turtles and
tortoises).
-- Rich Hall, "Sniglets"
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to
see it tried on him personally.
-- A. Lincoln
Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if
you run out of food.
-- Dean McLaughlin
Acting is an art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.
Saturday, 3 January 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org