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The problem with engineers is that they tend to cheat in order to get
results.

The problem with mathematicians is that they tend to work on toy
problems in order to get results.

The problem with program verifiers is that they tend to cheat at toy
problems in order to get results.

Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.
		-- Dorothy Parker, "Resume", 1926

A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen
lantern.
		-- Edgar A. Shoaff

Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Goedel's Theorem ...
		-- Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"

We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to
socialism, because socialism is defunct.  It dies all by itself.  The
bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its ... Did I say
socialism?
		-- Fidel Castro

May a Misguided Platypus lay its Eggs in your Jockey Shorts.

Preudhomme's Law of Window Cleaning:
	It's on the other side.

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination -- but the
combination is locked up in the safe.
		-- Peter DeVries

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Wednesday, 7 January 2026   Michael J. Chappell   Contact me at: mcsuper5@freeshell.org