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When you're not looking at it, this fortune is written in FORTRAN.
To iterate is human, to recurse, divine.
-- Robert Heller
The misnaming of fields of study is so common as to lead to what might
be general systems laws. For example, Frank Harary once suggested the
law that any field that had the word "science" in its name was
guaranteed thereby not to be a science. He would cite as examples
Military Science, Library Science, Political Science, Homemaking
Science, Social Science, and Computer Science. Discuss the generality
of this law, and possible reasons for its predictive
power.
-- Gerald Weinberg, "An Introduction to General Systems
Thinking."
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you
don't think.
"You are old," said the youth, "and your programs don't run,
And there isn't one language you like;
Yet of useful suggestions for help you have none --
Have you thought about taking a hike?"
"Since I never write programs," his father replied,
"Every language looks equally bad;
Yet the people keep paying to read all my books
And don't realize that they've been had."
A lot of people I know believe in positive thinking, and so do I. I
believe everything positively stinks.
-- Lew Col
Support bacteria -- it's the only culture some people have!
George Washington was first in war, first in peace -- and the first to
have his birthday juggled to make a long weekend.
-- Ashley Cooper
Tuesday, 21 April 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
