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 To:	_TERRY CC:	 Subj:	carl1.txt   G Received: from CUNYVM.BITNET by SPCVXA.BITNET; Mon, 14 May 90 12:01 EDT O Received: from CUNYVM by CUNYVM.BITNET (Mailer R2.03B) with BSMTP id 2461; Mon,   14 May 90 11:42:16 EDT N Received: from decpa.pa.dec.com by CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.2MX) with!  TCP; Mon, 14 May 90 11:42:08 EDT H Received: by decpa.pa.dec.com; id AA08689; Mon, 14 May 90 08:39:59 -0700D Received: from bolt.enet; by decpa.enet; Mon, 14 May 90 08:40:01 PDT! Date: Mon, 14 May 90 08:40:01 PDT K From: "Martin Minow, ML3-5/U26  14-May-1990 0946" <minow@bolt.enet.dec.com>  Subject: carl1.txt To: address@bolt.enet.dec.com 1 Message-id: <9005141539.AA08689@decpa.pa.dec.com>  X-Envelope-to: terry  P From:	THUNDR::DECWRL::"karl%sugar@uunet.UU.NET" "Karl Lehenbauer  25-Feb-89 0025  CST" 25-FEB-1989 08:54 6 To:	uunet!decwrl.dec.com!minow%thundr.DEC@uunet.UU.NET Subj:	re: your cookie file    Martin,    < Here is part 1 of the fortune cookie file, as you requested.   J After giving it a quick read, I think many are quite lame.  These were the= first.  Still, a few are pretty good, in my opinion at least.     I hope you like them.     By the way, I'm a fan.    -karl - --------------------------------------------- * What is vice today may be virtue tomorrow. %%= Let me play with it first and I'll tell you what it is later. 
 - Miles Davis  %%$ You will be successful in your work. %%H In the beginning I was made.  I didn't ask to me made.  No one consultedD me or considered my feelings in this matter.  But if it brought someD passing fancy to some lowly humans as they haphazardly pranced their1 way through life's mournful jungle then so be it.  - Marvin the Paranoid Android  %%0 I just thought of something funny...your mother. - Cheech Marin %%( Lack of skill dictates economy of style.
 - Joey Ramone  %% Life is wasted on the living.  - Zaphod Beeblebrox IV %% Youth is wasted on the young.  - George Bernard Shaw  %%) The life of a repo man is always intense.  %%1 You will soon meet a tall dark handsome stranger.  %%& !xob XINEX siht edisni kcuts m'I ,pleH %% I like the future, I'm in it.  %%7 If you don't watch it, you're going to catch something.  %% To be, or what?  - Sylvester Stallone %%D I waited and waited, and when nobody called, I knew it was from you. %% A stitch in time saves nine. %%% There's a bug somewhere in your code.  %%, Een schip op het strand is een baken in zee.1 [A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea.]  - Dutch Proverb  %%N Faire de la bonne cuisine demande un certain temps.  Si on vous fait attendre,- c'est pour mieux vous servir, et vous plaire. N [Good cooking takes time.  If you are made to wait, it is to serve you better,  and to please you.]' Menu of Restaurant Antoine, New Orleans 4 [Also, what we're going to be telling our customers] %%& Adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.4 [Add little to little and there will be a big pile.] - Ovid %%L He'll sit here and he'll say, "Do this!  Do that!"  And nothing will happen.( - Harry S. Truman, on presidential power %%( Practice is the best of all instructors. - Publilius  %%? Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.  - Poor Richard's Almanac %%O The author should gaze at Noah, and ... learn, as they did in the Ark, to crowd 1 a great deal of matter into a very small compass. ! - Sydney, Smith, Edinburgh Review  %% The hypothesis: L Amid a wash of paper, a small number of documents become the critical pivotsJ around which every project's management revolves.  These are the manager's chief personal tools. 2 - Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man Month %%8 There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy. - Swift  %%N It is common sense to take a method and try it.  If it fails, admit it frankly/ and try another.  But above all, try something.  - Franklin D. Roosevelt  %%1 Things are always at their best in the beginning.  - Pascal %%M That is the key to history.  Terrific energy is expended -- civilizations are O built up -- excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. O Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and then O it all slides back into misery and ruin.  In fact, the machine conks.  It seems D to start up all right and runs a few yards, and then it breaks down.
 - C. S. Lewis  %%% A good workman is known by his tools.  %%& I can call spirts from the vasty deep.N Why so can I, or so can any man; but will they come when you do call for them?$ - Shakespeare, king Henry IV, Part I %%! None love the bearer of bad news.  - Sophocles  %%@ How does a project get to be a year late? ... One day at a time./ - Frederick Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man Month  %%, What we do not understand we do not possess. - Goethe %%N The tar pit of software engineering will continue to be sticky for a long timeK to come.  One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just J within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps the mostJ intricate and complex of man's handiworks.  The management of this complexE craft will demand our best use of new languages and systems, our best L adaptation of proven engineering management methods, liberal doses of commonE sense, and ... humility to recognize our fallibility and limitations. / - Frederick Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man Month  %%O All programmers are optimists.  Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts N those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers.  Perhaps the hundredsN of nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually focus on the endN goal.  Perhaps it is merely that computers are young, programmers are younger,M and the young are always optimists.  But however the selection process works, M the result is indisputable:  "This time it will surely run," or "I just found  the last bug."/ - Frederick Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man Month  %%L The flow chart is a most thoroughly oversold piece of program documentation./ - Frederick Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man Month  %%L The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time.  The last 10% of a project takes 90% of the time. %%M At first sight, the idea of any rules or principles being superimposed on the P creative mind seems more likely to hinder than to help, but this is quite untrueO in practice.  disciplined thinking focuses inspiration rather than blinkers it. # - G. L. Glegg, The Design of Design  %%# "GOTO statement considered harmful" ? - E. W. Dijkstra, title to a letter in CACM 11, 3 (March, 1968)  %%G The meek shall inherit the earth.  The rest of us will go to the stars.  %% The emperor has no clothes.  %%M Here at Controls, we have one chief for every Indian...but only the brave get  scalped. %% The clothes have no emperor. - C. A. Hoare, about Ada.  %% There will always be survivors.  - Robert Heinlen %%M The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought- O stuff.  He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the J imagination.  Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish andD rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures./ - Frederick Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man Month  %%L Mind your own business, Mr. Spock.  I'm sick of your halfbreed interference. %%P A Puritan is someone who is deathly afraid that someone somewhere is having fun. %%7 A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.  - Samuel Johnson %%* A gift of flower will soon be made to you. %%P A liberal is someone too poor to be a capitalist and too rich to be a communist. %%, A man forgives only when he is in the wrong. %%5 A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.  %%5 University: A modern school where football is taught.  %%2 Actors will happen in the best-regulated families. %%I Admiration: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.  %%G We're fighting for this woman's honor, which is more than she ever did. " - Rufus T. Firefly, in "Duck Soup" %%L It's not often that you get so much class entertainment outside your bedroom' window or outside your bedroom, period.	 - Groucho Marx %%. All that glitters has a high refractive index. %%; Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.r %% Been Transferred Lately? %%3 Beware of a tall dark man with a spoon up his nose.e %%O Blessed are they that run around in circles, for they shall be known as wheels.D %%* Angular momentum makes the world go round. %%> Charity:  a thing that begins at home and usually stays there. %%& Crazee Edeee, his prices are INSANE!!! %%! Death:  to stop sinning suddenly.i %%, Do not underestimate the power of the Force. %%' Don't eat yellow snow.    - Frank Zappao %%$ Don't force it, use a bigger hammer. %%% Don't hit the keys so hard, it hurts.t %%7 Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.  %%, Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. %%8 Everything you know is wrong.     - The Firesign Theater %%D Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital. %%F Finagle's Law:  The perversity of the universe tends toward a maximum. %%  Flee at once, all is discovered. %%* Genius is the talent of a man who is dead. %%6 God must love the common man; He made so many of them. %% Hackers of the world, unite! %% Dyslexics of the world, untie! %%$ He who hesitates is sometimes saved. %%7 His heart was yours from the first moment that you met.l %%B I like work; it fascinates me; I can sit and look at it for hours. %%$ I think we're all Bozos on this bus. %% I will never lie to you. %%' I wish you humans would leave me alone.  %%N If God had wanted man to go around nude, He would have given him bigger hands. %%F If God had wanted man to fly, He would have given him airline tickets. %% Ignore previous fortune. %%C It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.l %%> Laugh, and the world ignores you.  Crying doesn't help either. %% Long life is in store for you. %%0 Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. %%> Love is in the offing.  Be affectionate to one who adores you. %%E Many are called, few are chosen.  Fewer still get to do the choosing.s %% Many are called, few volunteer.m %%K Might as well be frank, monsieur. It would take a miracle to get you out of, Casablanca.  %%< No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish. %%8 Now and then an innocent man is sent to the Legislature. %%B Paranoia doesn't mean the whole world really isn't out to get you. %%: Philosophy:  unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. %%* Someone is unenthusiastic about your work. %%= Stability itself is nothing else than a more sluggish motion.s %%6 Sturgeon's Law:  Ninety percent of everything is crud. %%K Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.u %%% The Ranger isn't gonna like it, Yogi.  %%I The Tree of Learning bears the noblest fruit, but noble fruit tastes bad.a %%9 The decision doesn't have to be logical, it is unanimous.i %%& The time is right to make new friends. %%* The universe is laughing behind your back. %%J There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. %%K Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.a %%& To think is human, to compute, divine. %%* Today is the last day of your life so far. %%3 Try the Moo Shu Pork.  It is especially good today.t %%E What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.  %%: What this country needs is a good five cent microcomputer. %%# Words must be weighed, not counted.e %%( You are going to have a new love affair. %%? You have a tendency to feel you are superior to most computers.h %%, You have been selected for a secret mission. %%9 You will be recognized and honored as a community leader.n %%& You will be surprised by a loud noise. %%+ You will feel hungry again in another hour.l %%J You'll be called to a post requiring ability in handling groups of people. %%  Your boss is thinking about you. %%: If something's not worth doing, it's not worth doing well. %%P When everything has been seen to work, all integrated, you have four more months of work to do. - C. Portman of ICL Ltd. %%D We stand today at a crossroads:  One path leads to despair and utterL hopelessness.  The other leads to total extinction.  Let us hope we have the  wisdom to make the right choice.
 - Woody Allen  %%N Some people hope to achieve immortality through their works or their children.* I would prefer to achieve it by not dying.
 - Woody Allenl %%& Nothing is done until nothing is done. %%! The fourth law of thermodynamics:o7 The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum.o %%0 There are no saints, only unrecognized villains. %%. There are no bugs, only unrecognized features. %%; It may soon be time for you to look for a new line of work.% %% Your project will be late. %%M The CS Sage says:  Seek new employment prior to the imposition of performancen penalties on your project. %%J You will see the light at the end of the tunnel; unfortunately, it will be' the light of an oncoming freight train.s %%* What is virtue today may be vice tomorrow. %%M "The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the contry demands bold,  persistent experimentation." - Franklin Delano Rooseveltm %%4 Money talks...but all mine keeps saying is "goodbye" %%O "No, it's 'Blessed are the meek.'  I think that's nice, 'cause really they haverA a hell of a time."  - someone in the crowd in "The Life of Brian"  %%N "I think he said 'Blessed are the cheesemakers.'"  "Nonsense, he was obviously2 referring to all manafacturers of dairy products."0 - two people in the crowd in "The Life of Brian" %%- How do you make a small fortune in Texas oil?,  n Start with a big one.o %%@ What can a pigeon do that a west Texas oil man can't do anymore?4 A pigeon can still make a deposit on a new Mercedes. %%6 How many lesbians does it take to change a light bulb?O Two.  One to change the bulb and another to reflect on how much more gratifying  it was than a man. %%3 How many WASPs does it take to change a light bulb?s7 Two.  One to change the bulb and one to mix the drinks.f %%; How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?oH Only one, but it takes a really long time and the light bulb has to want
 to change. %%: How many Californians does it take to change a light bulb?@ Four.  One to change the bulb and three to share the experience. %%9 How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?s None.  It's a hardware problem.a %%6 To program anything that is programmable is obsession. %%6 I'll play with it first and tell you what it is later.
 - Miles Davis  %%H I was in this prematurely air conditioned supermarket and there were allK these aisles and there were these bathing caps you could buy that had these K kind of Fourth of July plumes on them that were red and yellow and blue andlJ I wasn't tempted to buy one but I was reminded of the fact that I had been avoiding the beach.e6 - Lucinda Childs (Philip Glass: Einstein On The Beach) %%) Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.t - Hassan I Sabbah, %%> Don't let your mouth write no check that your tail can't cash. - Bo Diddley %%O The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of ae2 profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr %%G Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.  - Southern California Oracle %%N The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.s - H. P. Lovecrafto %%- Take what you can use and let the rest go by.% - Ken Keseyv %%8 Its not the size of the ship, its the size of the waves. - Little Richard %%4 I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
 - Mae West %%" Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. - Sigmund Freud. %%N When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before.i
 - Mae West %%$ Her life was saved by rock and roll.
 - Lou Reed %%P I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genitalC intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.d - J. Edgar Hoover  %%M "Honest Officer, had I known my health stood in jeprody I would never had litr% one."     - Maxim of the Hells Angelse %%B It is a rather pleasent experience to be alone in a bank at night. - Willie Suttons %%@ Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs painting. - Billy Rose %%= If you think the United States has stood still, who built thet% largest shopping center in the world?. - Richard M. Nixon %%A When I sell liquor, its called bootlegging; when my patrons serveo/ it on Lake Shore Drive, its called hospitality.o - Al Caponew %%/ Anything anybody can say about America is true.i - Emmett Grogan  %%M Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.  - Frank Lloyd Wright %%3 If you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.i
 - Spiro Agneww %%1 If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.r - Ronald Reagant %%6 If you've seen one Grand Canyon, you've seen them all.$ - a member of the Monkey Wrench Gang %%7 He who shits on the road will meet flies on his return.i - South African Saying %%* You can't underestimate the power of fear. - Tricia Nixon %%H The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak. - Wavy Gravy %%4 The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. - Buckminster Fuller %%= Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.i Dwight D. Eisenhower %%( College isn't the place to go for ideas. - Hellen Keller  %%L Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. - Arthur C. Clarke %%: America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood? - Allen Ginsberg %%M It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beatn	 somebody.l - Richard M. Nixon %%F Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearence of magic. - Arthur C. Clarke %%' Justice is incedental to law and order.e - J. Edgar Hoover  %%2 Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. - Groucho Marx %%9 The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.h - Abbie Hoffman  %%. Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old. - Pink Floyd %%P Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up. - Peter Druckero %%A How can you be two places at once when youre not anywhere at all?h - Firesign Theater %%D I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
 - Oscar Wildet %% We are what we pretend to be.l - Kurt Vonnegut, JRu %%B We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
 - Oscar Wildes %%C The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -% but thats the way to bet.  - Damon Runyon %%  I could prove God statistically. - George Gallupt %%G My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior H spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.i - Albert Einsteine %% Real wealth can only increase. - R. Buckminster Fullerr %%" Anyone can hate. it costs to love. - John Williamsone %%H In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. - John Lilly %%> Time is an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space.
 - Graffiti %%M The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.r - Albert Einsteins %%< Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it. - Tallulah Bankhead. %%3 A physicist is an atoms way of knowing about atoms.o
 - George Walde %%	 Dont lose 	 Your heade To gain a minute You need your head Your brains are in it.
 - Burma Shavee %%H It was always thus; and even if 'twere not, 'twould inevitably have been always thus. - Dean Lattimer  %%B Burnt Sienna. Thats the best thing that ever happened to Crayolas. - Ken Weaver %%H We don't know who discovered water, but we are certain it wasn't a fish.
 - John Culkink %%D Try to be the best of what you are, even if what you are is no good. - Ashleigh Brilliant %%L I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must have been from you. - Ashleigh Brilliant %%K Please don't lie to me, unless youre absolutely sure Ill never find out thee truth. - Ashleigh Brilliant %%I Please don't ask me what the score is, Im not even sure what the game is.o - Ashleigh Brilliant %%C I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.  - Ashleigh Brilliant %%@ If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly. - Ashleigh Brilliant %%> I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem. - Ashleigh Brilliant %%C Maybe Im lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the, wrong direction. - Ashleigh Brilliant %%I By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completelye
 overwhelm me.  - Ashleigh Brilliant %%L To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.i - Ashleigh Brilliant %%I America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence withoutt civilization in between.
 - Oscar Wilde  %%6 The flush toilet is the basis of Western civilization. - Alan Coult %%F If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. - Stanley Garn %%@ The world looks as if it has been left in the custody of trolls. - Father Robert F. Capon %%I Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonestB men in national government too.s - Richard M. Nixon %%; We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.e - Dwight D. Eisenhower %%E If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolutionl inevitiable. - John F. Kennedyr %%H "Contrariwise", continued Tweedledee, "If it was so, it might be; and ifA it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. Thats logic."% - Lewis Carrolln %%+ It takes a long time to understand nothing.  - Edward Dahlberga %%( To know the world one must construct it. - Cesare Pavese  %%9 Eeny Meeny, Jelly Beanie, the spirits are about to speak.s - Bullwinkle Moose %%3 The mistake you make is in trying to figure it out.h - Tenessee Williams  %%C An object never serves the same function as its image- or its name.h - Rene Magrittet %%E All I kin say is when you finds yo'self wanderin' in a peach orchard,t" ya don't go lookin' for rutabagas.
 - Kingfish %%7 He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.k - M. C. Escher %%0 Law of Computability Applied to Social Sciences:7  If at first you don't suceed, transform your data set.' %% Laws of Computer Programming1 (1) Any given program, when running, is obsolete.i2 (2) Any given program costs more and takes longer.7 (3) If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.y; (4) If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.n? (5) Any given program will expand to fill all available memory. 1 (6) The value of a program is porportional to thee     weight of its output. C (7) Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of thet$     programmer who must maintain it.9 (8) Make it possible for programmers to write programs iny<     English, and you will find that programmers cannot write     in English.a - SIGPLAN Notices, Vol 2 No 2i %%G When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.% - Calvin Coolidgey %%A The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.f
 - Paul Erlich% %%) If A equals success, then the formula is:h    A= X + Y + Ze0 X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. - Albert Einstein  %%M Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either.o - Joseph Fischer %% Fourth Law of Thermodymanics:aL  If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.
 - David Ellisa %% Frouds Law:.N  A transistor protected by a fast acting fuse will protect the fuse by blowing  first.e %%& Fullers Law of Cosmic Irreversibility:  1 Pot T == 1 Pot Pk  1 Pot P != 1 Pot Td - R. Buckminster Fullert %%= The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.a - J. Paul Getty  %%N Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs	 pounding.o - Abraham Kaplan %%> The fault lies not with our technologies but with our systems. - Roger Levian %%O Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance  under which you can be booked. - Robert D. Sprecht (Rand Corp)  %% Thoreau's Law:L  If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good,  you should run for your life. %% Vique's Law:9  A man without religion is like a fish without a bicycle.e %%? If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, E then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. ' - Gerald Weinberg  (sysop's note: bull)e %% Zimmerman's Law of Complaints:$ Nobody notices when things go right. %%7 Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.w - Confuciusv %%' Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein.  Book of Proverbs %%J It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain %%# The unnatural, that too is natural.f - Goethe %%) I used to be indecisive; now Im not sure.'
 - Graffiti %%; I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.  - Samuel Goldwyn %% He hasn't one redeeming vice. 
 - Oscar Wilde  %%) I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous. 
 - Graffiti %% (To Walter Cronkite):aB "Well Walter, I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number@ of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street"  - Neil Armstrong %%@ "You doubted Me," God tells the Lawgiver [Moses], "But I forgave? you that doubt. You doubted your own self and failed to believel@ in your own powers as a leader, and I forgave you that also. ButC you lost faith in these people and doubted the divine possibilitiesn; of Human Nature. THIS loss of faith makes it impossible for   you to enter the Promised Land."
 - The Midrashn %%I " 'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability"r - George Bernard Shawr %%E "Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty  without any proof" - Ashley Montagueo %% Birth, copulation and death.2 That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks; Birth, copulation and death.( - T. S. Elliot, Sweeney Agonistes (1932) %%? "Make no little plans. They have no Magic to stir Men's blood."i - D. B. Hudson %%C "Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages moresA 'user-friendly'.... Their best approach, so far, has been to takeuJ all the old brochures, and stamp the words, 'user-friendly' on the cover."$ - Bill Gates, Pres., Microsoft, Inc. %% Bradley's Bromide:G If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee...   that will do them in. %% Civilization Law #1:E Civilization advances by extending the number of important operationsp' one can do without thinking about them.  %% Ketterling's Law:b9 Logic is an organized way of going wrong with confidence.E %%E "Whenever 'A' attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon 'B',  'A' is most likely a scoundrel". - H. L. Menckeno %%@ "The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion" - George Washingtoni %%I "In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty."h  - Thomas Jeffersonl %%L "During almost fifteen centuries the legal establishment of Christianity hasM been upon trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride.L and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity,; in both,( superstition, bigotry, and persecution."  - James Madison %%E "Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations"n  - Thomas Jeffersonl %%B "We must all hang together, or we will surely all hang separately"  - Benjamin Franklin %%C "Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried"c - Thomas Jefferson %%< "Assuming that either the left wing or the right wing gained@ control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles"
 - Pat Paulsen  %%6 "An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself" - Albert Camus %%K "Six years for possession of a cigarette?...I got six months for possession  of a deadly weapon!" - cartoon by S. Harris %% The Swartzberg Test:5  The validity of a science is its ability to predict.e %%B "There is no choice before us. Either we must Succeed in providing@ the rational coordination of impulses and guts, or for centuries? civilization will sink into a mere welter of minor excitements.s= We must provide a Great Age or see the collapse of the upwardy striving of the human race"i - Alfred North Whitehead %%< "My own life has been spent chronicling the rise and fall of6 human systems, and I am convinced that we are terribly; vulnerable.... We should be reluctant to turn back upon thev7 frontier of this epoch. Space is indifferent to what wet8 do; it has no feeling, no design, no interest in whether: or not we grapple with it. But we cannot be indifferent to@ space, because the grand, slow march of intelligence has brought? us, in our generation, to a point from which we can explore andf< understand and utilize it. To turn back now would be to deny our history, our capabilities."i - James A. Micheners %%: "What does it take for Americans to do great things; to go: to the moon, to win wars, to dig canals linking oceans, to: build railroads across a continent? In independent thought; about this question, Neil Armstrong and I concluded that it : takes a coincidence of four conditions, or in Neil's view,? the simultaneous peaking of four of the many cycles of Americana= life. First, a base of technology must exist from which to dot= the thing to be done. Second, a period of national uneasinessl< about America's place in the scheme of human activities must: exist. Third, some catalytic event must occur that focuses> the national attention upon the direction to proceed. Finally,: an articulate and wise leader must sense these first three> conditions and put forth with words and action the great thing@ to be accomplished. The motivation of young Americans to do what@ needs to be done flows from such a coincidence of conditions....> The Thomas Jeffersons, The Teddy Roosevelts, The John Kennedys= appear. We must begin to create the tools of leadership whichn; they, and thier young frontiersmen, will require to lead us  onward and upward."w+ - Dr. Harrison H. Schmidt, Sen., New Mexicor %%: "What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work? A stick!"  - Bill Kirchenbaum, comedian -s %%P "To err is human, to compute divine. Trust your computer but not its programmer" - Morris Kingstoni %%O "I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more ' of them who were paralyzed in the head"  - George Wallace %%4 "You don't have to explain something you never said" - Calvin Coolidgef %%, "A little caution outflanks a large cavalry"
 - Bismarck %%K "A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money"i - Everett Dirkseni %%; "The personal computer market is about the same size as theo= total potato chip market. Next year it will be about half they= size of the pet food market and is fast approaching the total  worldwide sales of pantyhose"%1  - James Finke, Pres., Commodore Int'l Ltd.(1982)  %%( "I like a man who grins when he fights." - Winston Churchilln %%E "There are a lot of lies going around.... and half of them are true."u - Winston Churchill  %%J "Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on..."  - Winston Churchillr %%? "God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday,rA and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday,s Thursday, and Saturday." - William Braggr %%K "Pioneering basically amounts to finding new and more horrible ways to die"s - John W. Campbell %%2 "That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest"< - Thoreau (Sysop's note: and if so, what are we doing here?) %%O Life is not one thing after another.... it's the same damn thing over and over!s %%I The meek will inherit the Earth..... The rest of us will go to the stars.t %%? After all is said and done, a lot more has been said than done.  %%= Beauty is only skin deep, but Ugly goes straight to the bone.n %%( There is no remedy for sex but more sex. %%7 Any given program, when running correctly, is obsolete.  %%N Tell a man that there are 300 billion stars in the universe, and he'll believeN you.... Tell him that a bench has wet paint upon it and he'll have to touch it to be sure.% %%M Sex is like snow... You never know how many inches you're going to get or howb long it will last. %%G What matters is not the length of the wand, but the magic in the stick.  %%> Love is a matter of chemistry, but Sex is a matter of physics. %%N "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought." - Albert Szent-Gyorgis %%/ "Revolution is the opiate of the intellectuals"h - "Oh, Lucky Man"  %%  I really hate this damn machine, I wish that they would sell it.  It never does just what I want,T But only what I tell it. %%< "Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters;H united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels" - Goya %%; "Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon  the wall instead of using it"i - Gordon R. Dicksont %%L "Civilization is a movement, not a condition; it is a voyage, not a harbor."	 - Toynbeev %%$ "We have met the enemy and he is us" - Walt Kelly (in POGO) %%   H ========================================================================= Received: from uunet.UU.NET by decwrl.dec.com (5.54.5/4.7.34)u( 	id AA27618; Sat, 25 Feb 89 05:52:36 PST= Received: from uunet.UU.NET by decwrl.dec.com (5.54.5/4.7.34)h; 	for thundr::minow; id AA27618; Sat, 25 Feb 89 05:52:36 PSTd? Received: from sugar.UUCP by uunet.UU.NET (5.61/1.14) with UUCPt* 	id AA01915; Sat, 25 Feb 89 02:26:31 -0500$ Received: by sugar.UU.NET (smail2.5)) 	id AA28903; 25 Feb 89 00:25:47 CST (Sat)o- Message-Id: <8902250025.AA28903@sugar.UU.NET>%