After watching my newly-retired dad spend two weeks learning how to make a new folder, it became obvious that "intuitive" mostly means "what the writer or speaker of intuitive likes". (Bruce Ediger, bediger@teal.csn.org, in comp.os.linux.misc, on X the intuitiveness of a Mac interface.)

Gary Hart: living proof that you *can* screw your brains out.

"Don't talk to me about disclaimers! I invented disclaimers!" -- The Censored Hacker

Fiery energy lanced out, but the beams struck an intangible wall between the Gubru and the rapidly turning Earth ship. "Water!" it shrieked as it read the spectral report. "A barrier of water vapor! A civilized race could not have found such a trick in the Library! A civilized race could not have stooped so low! A civilized race would not have..." It screamed as the Gubru ship hit a cloud of drifting snowflakes. -- Startide Rising, by David Brin

Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. -- Mark Twain

The prettiest women are almost always the most boring, and that is why some people feel there is no God. -- Woody Allen, "Without Feathers"

Don't look now, but there is a multi-legged creature on your shoulder.

We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids? -- I. I. Rabi to the Atomic Energy Commission

This quote is taken from the Diamondback, the University of Maryland student newspaper, of Tuesday, 3/10/87. One disadvantage of the Univac system is that it does not use Unix, a recently developed program which translates from one computer language to another and has a built-in editing system which identifies errors in the original program.

Hmmm ... a PINHEAD, during an EARTHQUAKE, encounters an ALL-MIDGET FIDDLE ORCHESTRA ... ha ... ha ...

I am a deeply superficial person. -- Andy Warhol

Your conscience never stops you from doing anything. It just stops you from enjoying it.

A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland

Some men are all right in their place -- if they only the knew the right places! -- Mae West

Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest.

Do nothing unless you must, and when you must act -- hesitate.

"... being a Linux user is sort of like living in a house inhabited by a large family of carpenters and architects. Every morning when you wake up, the house is a little different. Maybe there is a new turret, or some walls have moved. Or perhaps someone has temporarily removed the floor under your bed." - Unix for Dummies, 2nd Edition -- found in the .sig of Rob Riggs, rriggs@tesser.com

Why do so many foods come packaged in plastic? It's quite uncanny.

This unit... must... survive.