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Preudhomme's Law of Window Cleaning:
It's on the other side.
"Seven years and six months!" Humpty Dumpty repeated
thoughtfully. "An uncomfortable sort of age. Now if you'd asked MY
advice, I'd have said `Leave off at seven' -- but it's too late now."
"I never ask advice about growing," Alice said indignantly.
"Too proud?" the other enquired.
Alice felt even more indignant at this suggestion. "I mean,"
she said, "that one can't help growing older."
"ONE can't, perhaps," said Humpty Dumpty; "but TWO can. With
proper assistance, you might have left off at seven."
-- Lewis Carroll
If, in your office, you as an intellectual worker were supplied with a
computer display backed up by a computer that was alive for you all day, and
that was instantly responsive to every action you had, how much value could
you derive from that?
-- Douglas Engelbart, Fall Joint Computer Conference,
December 9th, 1968
Nobody said computers were going to be polite.
A disciple of another sect once came to Drescher as he was
eating his morning meal. "I would like to give you this personality
test", said the outsider, "because I want you to be happy."
Drescher took the paper that was offered him and put it into
the toaster -- "I wish the toaster to be happy too".
Boren's Laws:
(1) When in charge, ponder.
(2) When in trouble, delegate.
(3) When in doubt, mumble.
Pardo's First Postulate:
Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or
fattening.
Arnold's Addendum:
Everything else causes cancer in rats.
Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology:
There's always one more bug.
Saturday, 18 July 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
