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Save energy: be apathetic.
Stult's Report:
Our problems are mostly behind us. What we have to do now is
fight the solutions.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on
society.
-- Mark Twain
A raccoon tangled with a 23,000 volt line today. The results blacked
out 1400 homes and, of course, one raccoon.
-- Steel City News
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact,
it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to
invent.
-- R. Emerson
-- Quoted from a fortune cookie program
(whose author claims, "Actually, stealing IS easier.")
[to which I reply, "You think it's easy for me to
misconstrue all these misquotations?!?"]
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..."
-- Isaac Asimov
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], `Pray,
Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right
answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of
confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
-- Charles Babbage
Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.
Tuesday, 10 February 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
