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Just as most issues are seldom black or white, so are most good
solutions seldom black or white. Beware of the solution that requires
one side to be totally the loser and the other side to be totally the
winner. The reason there are two sides to begin with usually is
because neither side has all the facts. Therefore, when the wise
mediator effects a compromise, he is not acting from political
motivation. Rather, he is acting from a deep sense of respect for the
whole truth.
-- Stephen R. Schwambach
The reader this message encounters not failing to understand is
cursed.
Weinberg's First Law:
Progress is made on alternate Fridays.
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
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away"
-- Philip K. Dick
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying
of nothing.
-- Redd Foxx
I bet the human brain is a kludge.
-- Marvin Minsky
Fortune: You will be attacked next Wednesday at 3:15 p.m. by six samurai
sword wielding purple fish glued to Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
Oh, and have a nice day!
-- Bryce Nesbitt '84
Thursday, 3 September 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
