A Fortran compiler is the hobgoblin of little minis.

If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years. -- Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

It's getting harder and harder to think out loud. One of these days someone's gonna go off and kill Thomas a'Becket for me... -- Larry Wall in <199709242015.NAA10312@wall.org>

Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone. -- Pyrrhus

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

Something's rotten in the state of Denmark. -- Shakespeare

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce, "Ulysses"

Preserve wildlife -- pickle a squirrel today!

I used to be a rebel in my youth. This cause... that cause... (chuckle) I backed 'em ALL! But I learned. Rebellion is simply a device used by the immature to hide from his own problems. So I lost interest in politics. Now when I feel aroused by a civil rights case or a passport hearing... I realize it's just a device. I go to my analyst and we work it out. You have no idea how much better I feel these days. -- J. Feiffer

"... all the good computer designs are bootlegged; the formally planned products, if they are built at all, are dogs!" -- David E. Lundstrom, "A Few Good Men From Univac", MIT Press, 1987

Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember. -- Oliver Herford

There was a phone call for you.

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense. -- Ken Kesey

"Show business is just like high school, except you get paid." -- Martin Mull

"You show me an American who can keep his mouth shut and I'll eat him." -- Newspaperman from Frank Capra's _Meet_John_Doe_

Football is a game designed to keep coalminers off the streets. -- Jimmy Breslin

"If a camel flies, no one laughs if it doesn't get very far." -- Paul White

As to the Adjective: when in doubt, strike it out. -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

The pollution's at that awkward stage. Too thick to navigate and too thin to cultivate. -- Doug Sneyd

(1) X=Y ; Given (2) X^2=XY ; Multiply both sides by X (3) X^2-Y^2=XY-Y^2 ; Subtract Y^2 from both sides (4) (X+Y)(X-Y)=Y(X-Y) ; Factor (5) X+Y=Y ; Cancel out (X-Y) term (6) 2Y=Y ; Substitute X for Y, by equation 1 (7) 2=1 ; Divide both sides by Y -- "Omni", proof that 2 equals 1