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There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
-- Mark Twain
All this wheeling and dealing around, why, it isn't for money, it's for
fun. Money's just the way we keep score.
-- Henry Tyroon
I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter
than a season.
-- Josh Rosen
Real computer scientists despise the idea of actual hardware. Hardware
has limitations, software doesn't. It's a real shame that Turing
machines are so poor at I/O.
"Somewhere", said Father Vittorini, "did Blake not speak of the
Machineries of Joy? That is, did not God promote environments, then
intimidate these Natures by provoking the existence of flesh, toy men
and women, such as are we all? And thus happily sent forth, at our
best, with good grace and fine wit, on calm noons, in fair climes, are
we not God's Machineries of Joy?"
"If Blake said that", said Father Brian, "he never lived in Dublin."
-- R. Bradbury, "The Machineries of Joy"
Christ:
A man who was born at least 5,000 years ahead of his time.
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened
or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I
cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to
go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.
-- Mark Twain
Every group has a couple of experts. And every group has at least one
idiot. Thus are balance and harmony (and discord) maintained. It's
sometimes hard to remember this in the bulk of the flamewars that all
of the hassle and pain is generally caused by one or two
highly-motivated, caustic twits.
-- Chuq Von Rospach, about Usenet
Friday, 24 July 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
