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Going to church does not make a person religious, nor does going to
school make a person educated, any more than going to a garage makes a
person a car.
When I heated my home with oil, I used an average of 800 gallons a
year. I have found that I can keep comfortably warm for an entire
winter with slightly over half that quantity of beer.
-- Dave Barry, "Postpetroleum Guzzler"
Cleveland? Yes, I spent a week there one day.
It's not Camelot, but it's not Cleveland, either.
-- Kevin White, mayor of Boston
Everyone knows that dragons don't exist. But while this simplistic
formulation may satisfy the layman, it does not suffice for the
scientific mind. The School of Higher Neantical Nillity is in fact
wholly unconcerned with what ____does exist. Indeed, the banality of
existence has been so amply demonstrated, there is no need for us to
discuss it any further here. The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the
problem analytically, discovered three distinct kinds of dragon: the
mythical, the chimerical, and the purely hypothetical. They were all,
one might say, nonexistent, but each nonexisted in an entirely
different way ...
-- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake
him up.
Real Users find the one combination of bizarre input values that shuts
down the system for days.
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
Saturday, 13 June 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org