A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

* boren tosses matlab across the room and hopes it breaks into a number aproaching infinite peices

If the rich could pay the poor to die for them, what a living the poor could make!

The Korean War must have been fun.

Trust in Allah, but tie your camel. -- Arabian proverb

With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter. -- William Lloyd Garrison

Getting the job done is no excuse for not following the rules. Corollary: Following the rules will not get the job done.

Staff meeting in the conference room in 3 minutes.

First law of debate: Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.

Send your questions to ``ASK ZIPPY'', Box 40474, San Francisco, CA 94140, USA

"Hello again, Peabody here..." -- Mister Peabody

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759

You know you've been sitting in front of your Lisp machine too long when you go out to the junk food machine and start wondering how to make it give you the CADR of Item H so you can get that yummie chocolate cupcake that's stuck behind the disgusting vanilla one.

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Spirtle, n.: The fine stream from a grapefruit that always lands right in your eye. -- Sniglets, "Rich Hall & Friends"

The first time, it's a KLUDGE! The second, a trick. Later, it's a well-established technique! -- Mike Broido, Intermetrics

If you don't care where you are, then you ain't lost.

The best laid plans of mice and men are usually about equal. -- Blair

Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. -- William Congreve

A Code of Honour: never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonourable behaviour. Unless she's really attractive. -- Bruce J. Friedman, "Sex and the Lonely Guy"