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 To:	_TERRY CC:	 Subj:	carl2.txt   G Received: from CUNYVM.BITNET by SPCVXA.BITNET; Mon, 14 May 90 10:05 EDT O Received: from CUNYVM by CUNYVM.BITNET (Mailer R2.03B) with BSMTP id 9771; Mon,   14 May 90 09:56:16 EDT N Received: from decpa.pa.dec.com by CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.2MX) with!  TCP; Mon, 14 May 90 09:56:08 EDT H Received: by decpa.pa.dec.com; id AA01125; Mon, 14 May 90 06:54:21 -0700D Received: from bolt.enet; by decpa.enet; Mon, 14 May 90 06:54:23 PDT! Date: Mon, 14 May 90 06:54:23 PDT K From: "Martin Minow, ML3-5/U26  14-May-1990 0946" <minow@bolt.enet.dec.com>  Subject: carl2.txt To: address@bolt.enet.dec.com 1 Message-id: <9005141354.AA01125@decpa.pa.dec.com>  X-Envelope-to: terry  L "You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are
 now extinct."  - M. Somerset Maugham  %%" "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." - Bert Lantz %%N "The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception a neccessity."
 - Oscar Wilde  %%? "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." 
 - Voltaire %%@ "IBM uses what I like to call the 'hole-in-the-ground technique': to destroy the competition..... IBM digs a big HOLE in the8 ground and covers it with leaves. It then puts a big POT9 OF GOLD nearby. Then it gives the call, 'Hey, look at all 9 this gold, get over here fast.' As soon as the competitor * approaches the pot, he falls into the pit" - John C. Dvorak %%H "There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them" - Heisenberg %%= "It takes all sorts of in & out-door schooling to get adapted  to my kind of fooling"
 - R. Frost %%= "Confound these ancestors.... They've stolen our best ideas!"  - Ben Jonson %%L And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung thatK cometh out of man, in their sight...Then he [the Lord!] said unto me, Lo, I K have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread 
 therewith. [Ezek. 4:12-15 (KJV)]  %%M I have stripped off my dress; must I put it on again?  I have washed my feet;  must I soil them again? J When my beloved slipped his hand through the latch-hole, my bowels stirred/ within me [my bowels were moved for him (KJV)]. L When I arose to open for my beloved, my hands dripped with myrrh; the liquidJ myrrh from my fingers ran over the knobs of the bolt.  With my own hands IN opened to my love, but my love had turned away and gone by; my heart sank whenM he turned his back.  I sought him but I did not find him, I called him but he  did not answer. F The watchmen, going the rounds of the city, met me; they struck me and;   wounded me; the watchmen on the walls took away my cloak.  [Song of Solomon 5:3-7 (NEB)]  %%M How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy N thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.  Thy navelL is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor:  thy belly is like an heap  of wheat set about with lillies.8 Thy two breasts are like two young roses that are twins. [Song of Solomon 7:1-3 (KJV)]  %%J How beautiful, how entrancing you are, my loved one, daughter of delights!K You are stately as a palm-tree, and your breasts are the clusters of dates. M I said, "I will climb up into the palm to grasp its fronds."  May I find your I breast like clusters of grapes on the vine, the scent of your breath like K apricots, and your whispers like spiced wine flowing smoothly to welcome my . caresses, gliding down through lips and teeth. [Song of Solomon 7:6-9 (NEB)]  %%N Wear me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strongM as death, passion cruel as the grave; it blazes up like blazing fire, fiercer  than any flame.  [Song of Solomon 8:6 (NEB)]  %%J But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and toL thee, to speak these words?  Hath he not sent me to the men which sit on theJ wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you? [2 Kings 18:27 (KJV)]  %%M When Yahweh your gods has settled you in the land you're about to occupy, and M driven out many infidels before you...you're to cut them down and exterminate E them.  You're to make no compromise with them or show them any mercy.  [Deut. 7:1 (KJV)]  %%0 I just thought of something funny...your mother. - Cheech Marin %%I In the beginning, I was made.  I didn't ask to be made.  No one consulted I with me or considered my feelings in this matter.  But if it brought some H passing fancy to some lowly humans as they haphazardly pranced their way. through life's mournful jungle, then so be it.K - Marvin the Paranoid Android, From Douglas Adams' Hitchiker's Guide to the  Galaxy Radio Scripts %%$ You will be successful in your work. %%) The life of a repo man is always intense.  %%7 If you're not careful, you're going to catch something.  %%G That's the thing about people who think they hate computers.  What they ! really hate is lousy programmers. 5 - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle in "Oath of Fealty"  %%  Wherever you go...There you are. - Buckaroo Banzai  %%I Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.  - Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan %%( Lack of skill dictates economy of style.
 - Joey Ramone  %%M No one is fit to be trusted with power. ... No one. ... Any man who has lived J at all knows the follies and wickedness he's capabe of. ... And if he doesI know it, he knows also that neither he nor any man ought to be allowed to  decide a single human fate. $ - C. P. Snow, The Light and the Dark %%0 Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue. - Seneca %%K When we jumped into Sicily, the units became separated, and I couldn't find L anyone.  Eventually I stumbled across two colonels, a major, three captains,K two lieutenants, and one rifleman, and we secured the bridge.  Never in the / history of war have so few been led by so many.  - General James Gavin  %%O The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.  - Edmund Burke %%9 You may call me by my name, Wirth, or by my value, Worth.  - Nicklaus Wirth %%. Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.> Teach a man to fish, and he'll invite himself over for dinner. - Calvin Keegan  %%7 Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future.  - Niels Bohr %%K The computer can't tell you the emotional story.  It can give you the exact 8 mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
 - Frank Zappa  %%0 Things are not as simple as they seems at first. - Edward Thorp %%L The main thing is the play itself.  I swear that greed for money has nothingB to do with it, although heaven knows I am sorely in need of money. - Feodor Dostoyevsky %%F It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions. - Robert Bly %%2 Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
 - Alan Turing  %%J Uncertain fortune is thoroughly mastered by the equity of the calculation. - Blaise Pascal  %%9 After Goliath's defeat, giants ceased to command respect.  - Freeman Dyson  %%I There are two ways of constructing a software design.  One way is to make I it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other is to > make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. - Charles Anthony Richard Hoare  %%C Do not allow this language (Ada) in its present state to be used in I applications where reliability is critical, i.e., nuclear power stations, E cruise missiles, early warning systems, anti-ballistic missle defense L systems.  The next rocket to go astray as a result of a programming languageI error may not be an exploratory space rocket on a harmless trip to Venus: L It may be a nuclear warhead exploding over one of our cities.  An unreliableE programming language generating unreliable programs constitutes a far J greater risk to our environment and to our society than unsafe cars, toxic3 pesticides, or accidents at nuclear power stations.  - C. A. R. Hoare %%M Without coffee he could not work, or at least he could not have worked in theoM way he did.  In addition to paper and pens, he took with him everywhere as anTH indispensable article of equipment the coffee machine, which was no less2 important to him than his table or his white robe.$ - Stefan Zweigs, Biography of Balzac %%J "It was the Law of the Sea, they said.	Civilization ends at the waterline.K Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top."0 - Hunter S. Thompson %%K In the pitiful, multipage, connection-boxed form to which the flowchart hasnF today been elaborated, it has proved to be useless as a design tool --H programmers draw flowcharts after, not before, writing the programs they	 describe.m - Fred Brooks, Jr. %%F The so-called "desktop metaphor" of today's workstations is instead anM "airplane-seat" metaphor.  Anyone who has shuffled a lap full of papers whilewM seated between two portly passengers will recognize the difference -- one canI# see only a very few things at once.e - Fred Brooks, Jr. %%M ...when fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer hasi> been known to abandon the desktop for the more spacious floor. - Fred Brooks, Jr. %%M A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systemsyI have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, K those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are N the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers.  Consider Unix,M APL, Pascal, Modula, the Smalltalk interface, even Fortran; and contrast themh- with Cobol, PL/I, Algol, MVS/370, and MS-DOS.t - Fred Brooks, Jr. %%D ...computer hardware progress is so fast.  No other technology sinceH civilization began has seen six orders of magnitude in performance-price gain in 30 years.! - Fred Brooks, Jr. %%N Software entities are more complex for their size than perhaps any other humanG construct because no two parts are alike.  If they are, we make the two M similar parts into a subroutine -- open or closed.  In this respect, softwarehJ systems differ profoundly from computers, buildings, or automobiles, where repeated elements abound.h - Fred Brooks, Jr. %%L Digital computers are themselves more complex than most things people build:L They hyave very large numbers of states.  This makes conceiving, describing,M and testing them hard.  Software systems have orders-of-magnitude more statesi than computers do. - Fred Brooks, Jr. %%K The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one.yJ Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity  often abstract away its essence. - Fred Brooks, Jr. %%M Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, becausenH God is not capricious or arbitrary.  No such faith comforts the software	 engineer.  - Fred Brooks, Jr. %%K Except for 75% of the women, everyone in the whole world wants to have sex.  - Ellyn Mustardn %%N The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problemsH and solutions we can imagine is very close.  For this reason restrictingM language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at beste
 dangerous.5 - Bjarne Stroustrup in "The C++ Programming Language"! %%N The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. - Brian Kernighanp %%5 Perfection is acheived only on the point of collapse.a - C. N. Parkinson  %% There you go man,  Keep as cool as you can.> It riles them to believe that you perceive the web they weave. Keep on being free!s %%B Bingo, gas station, hamburger with a side order of airplane noise,E and you'll be Gary, Indiana. - Jessie in the movie "Greaser's Palace"o %%8 Hoping to goodness is not theologically sound. - Peanuts %%J Police up your spare rounds and frags.  Don't leave nothin' for the dinks. - Willem Dafoe in "Platoon"h %%O "All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific."e -- Jane Wagner %%N "Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to toppleH his world.  To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than$ against them is to attain literacy."E -- Alan Kay, "Computer Software", Scientific American, September 1984d %%M "Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough toyN make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.K As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.  IfeG we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard forBO personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computinga a part of our lives?" E -- Alan Kay, "Computer Software", Scientific American, September 1984F %%9 "The greatest warriors are the ones who fight for peace."p
 -- Holly Nearl %%* "No matter where you go, there you are..." -- Buckaroo Banzai %%8 Trespassers will be shot.  Survivors will be prosecuted. %%8 Trespassers will be shot.  Survivors will be SHOT AGAIN! %%  "I'm growing older, but not up." -- Jimmy Buffett %%N Scientists will study your brain to learn more about your distant cousin, Man. %%5 "I hate the itching.  But I don't mind the swelling."fJ -- new buzz phrase, like "Where's the Beef?" that David Letterman's trying"    to get everyone to start saying %% Your own mileage may vary. %%< "Oh dear, I think you'll find reality's on the blink again." -- Marvin The Paranoid Android %%! "Send lawyers, guns and money..." " -- Lyrics from a Warren Zevon song %%@ "I go on working for the same reason a hen goes on laying eggs." - H. L. Menckena %%A "Remember, Information is not knowledge; Knowledge is not Wisdom;e= Wisdom is not truth; Truth is not beauty; Beauty is not love;i5 Love is not music; Music is the best." -- Frank Zappan %% I can't drive 55.m %%& "And they told us, what they wanted...E  Was a sound that could kill some-one, from a distance." -- Kate BushN %%M "In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's notiA there if you want to keep writing good code."  -- Karl Lehenbauerd %%* Badges?  We don't need no stinking badges. %% I can't drive 55.i: I'm looking forward to not being able to drive 65, either. %%4 Thank God a million billion times you live in Texas. %%B "Can you program?"  "Well, I'm literate, if that's what you mean!" %%G No user-servicable parts inside.  Refer to qualified service personnel.o %%E At the heart of science is an essential tension between two seeminglyhJ contradictory attitudes -- an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarreI or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutinynJ of all ideas, old and new.  This is how deep truths are winnowed from deepJ nonsense.  Of course, scientists make mistakes in trying to understand theJ world, but there is a built-in error-correcting mechanism:  The collectiveI enterprise of creative thinking and skeptical thinking together keeps the. field on track. L -- Carl Sagan, "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection," Parade, February 1, 1987 %%H One of the saddest lessons of history is this:  If we've been bamboozledG long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle.  We're no G longer interested in finding out the truth.  The bamboozle has capturedfI us.  it is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- thatvG we've been so credulous.  (So the old bamboozles tend to persist as thei new bamboozles rise.) L -- Carl Sagan, "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection," Parade, February 1, 1987 %%K Regarding astral projection, Woody Allen once wrote, "This is not a bad waycC to travel, although there is usually a half-hour wait for luggage."o %%I The inability to benefit from feedback appears to be the primary cause ofmK pseudoscience.  Pseudoscientists retain their beliefs and ignore or distortiM contradictory evidence rather than modify or reject a flawed theory.  BecauseiH of their strong biases, they seem to lack the self-correcting mechanisms% scientists must employ in their work.s9 -- Thomas L. Creed, "The Skeptical Inquirer," Summer 1987  %%M Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and N bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage.  But if weO don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the trulyaM serious problems that face us -- and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, upa0 for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.L -- Carl Sagan, "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection," Parade, February 1, 1987 %%A Do not underestimate the value of print statements for debugging., %%A Do not underestimate the value of print statements for debugging.e9 Don't have aesthetic convulsions when using them, either.m %%M As the system comes up, the component builders will from time to time appear,dK bearing hot new versions of their pieces -- faster, smaller, more complete, J or putatively less buggy.  The replacement of a working component by a newH version requires the same systematic testing procedure that adding a newK component does, although it should require less time, for more complete and./ efficient test cases will usually be available. 0 - Frederick Brooks Jr., "The Mythical Man Month" %%J Each team building another component has been using the most recent testedN version of the integrated system as a test bed for debugging its piece.  TheirN work will be set back by having that test bed change under them.  Of course itK must.  But the changes need to be quantized.  Then each user has periods ofcK productive stability, interrupted by bursts of test-bed change.  This seemssB to be much less disruptive than a constant rippling and trembling.0 - Frederick Brooks Jr., "The Mythical Man Month" %%K Conceptual integrity in turn dictates that the design must proceed from oneh= mind, or from a very small number of agreeing resonant minds.d0 - Frederick Brooks Jr., "The Mythical Man Month" %%N It is a very humbling experience to make a multimillion-dollar mistake, but itN is also very memorable.  I vividly recall the night we decided how to organizeI the actual writing of external specifications for OS/360.  The manager of,G architecture, the manager of control program implementation, and I wereoC threshing out the plan, schedule, and division of responsibilities.i   L The architecture manager had 10 good men.  He asserted that they could writeI the specifications and do it right.  It would take ten months, three moree than the schedule allowed.  eM The control program manager had 150 men.  He asserted that they could prepare.H the specifications, with the architecture team coordinating; it would beH well-done and practical, and he could do it on schedule.  Futhermore, ifJ the architecture team did it, his 150 men would sit twiddling their thumbs for ten months.e  mM To this the architecture manager responded that if I gave the control programbK team the responsibility, the result would not in fact be on time, but would M also be three months late, and of much lower quality.  I did, and it was.  He J was right on both counts.  Moreover, the lack of conceptual integrity madeL the system far more costly to build and change, and I would estimate that it added a year to debugging time.f0 - Frederick Brooks Jr., "The Mythical Man Month" %%M The reason ESP, for example, is not considered a viable topic in contemopraryeK psychology is simply that its investigation has not proven fruitful...AftermM more than 70 years of study, there still does not exist one example of an ESPoK phenomenon that is replicable under controlled conditions.  This simple but.O basic scientific criterion has not been met despite dozens of studies conductedrO over many decades...It is for this reason alone that the topic is now of little K interest to psychology...In short, there is no demonstrated phenomenon thatg needs explanation.L -- Keith E. Stanovich, "How to Think Straight About Psychology", pp. 160-161 %%L The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousandL years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man$ is and will always be a wild animal. -- Charles Galton Darwin %%P Natural selection won't matter soon, not anywhere as much as concious selection.I We will civilize and alter ourselves to suit our ideas of what we can be.SN Within one more human lifespan, we will have changed ourselves unrecognizably. -- Greg Bear %%A "Jesus may love you, but I think you're garbage wrapped in skin."  -- Michael O'Donohughf %%K ...though his invention worked superbly -- his theory was a crock of sewagel  fromw2 beginning to end. -- Vernor Vinge, "The Peace War" %%3 "It's like deja vu all over again."   -- Yogi Berraw %%E The last thing one knows in constructing a work is what to put first.? -- Blaise Pascal %%P "Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?" he asked.  "Begin at the beginning,"H the King said, gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop."/ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll  %%H A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. -- Thomas Jeffersonw %%@ To be awake is to be alive.  -- Henry David Thoreau, in "Walden" %%K A person with one watch knows what time it is; a person with two watches isn never sure.   Proverb  %% You see but you do not observe.n; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"  %%K A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battlev unless there be two.  -- Senecal %%P Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb8 to you till your life has illustrated it.  -- John Keats %%M The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the orderc. of space and time.  -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge %%I What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.i -- Bengamin Disraeli %%N Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan.  We may as well think of@ rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.  -- Edmund Burke %%I For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat, and wrong.s -- H. L. Mencken %%@ Don't tell me how hard you work.  Tell me how much you get done. -- James J. Ling %%J One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.G Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought,i' a rivalry of aim.  -- Henry Brook Adams% %%
 Remember thee"- Ay, thou poor ghost while memory holds a seat") In this distracted globe.  Remember thee!e  Yea, from the table of my memory( I'll wipe away all trivial fond records,1 All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past,t( That youth and observation copied there.( Hamlet, I : v : 95   William Shakespeare %%N Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which heG has based it.  Give him the truth and he may still go wrong when he hassO the chance to be right, but give him no news or present him only with distortedrO and incomplete data, with ignorant, sloppy or biased reporting, with propagandaiM and deliberate falsehoods, and you destroy his whole reasoning processes, andt# make him something less than a man.a -- Arthur Hays Sulzbergers %%N Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy; based on excellence of performance.  -- James Bryant Conantt %%6 You can observe a lot just by watching.  -- Yogi Berra %%N If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of a circuit, IH see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by# electricity.  -- Samuel F. B. Morseh %%? "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you."   -- Alexander Graham Belld %%@ It's currently a problem of access to gigabits through punybaud. -- J. C. R. Lickliderh %%M It is important to note that probably no large operating system using currenteI design technology can withstand a determined and well-coordinated attack,sE and that most such documented penetrations have been remarkably easy.tH -- B. Hebbard, "A Penetration Analysis of the Michigan Terminal System",= Operating Systems Review, Vol. 14, No. 1, June 1980, pp. 7-20s %%J A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. -- Ramsey Clarkd %%J The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate- knowledge of its ugly side.  -- James Baldwini %% Small is beautiful.e %%L ...the increased productivity fostered by a friendly environment and quality@ tools is essential to meet ever increasing demands for software.. -- M. D. McIlroy, E. N. Pinson and B. A. Tague %%7 It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.e -- Abraham Lincoln %%< Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images. -- Jean Cocteau, %%K Suppose for a moment that the automobile industry had developed at the sameaP rate as computers and over the same period:  how much cheaper and more efficientL would the current models be?  If you have not already heard the analogy, theN answer is shattering.  Today you would be able to buy a Rolls-Royce for $2.75,J it would do three million miles to the gallon, and it would deliver enoughE power to drive the Queen Elizabeth II.  And if you were interested inhC miniaturization, you could place half a dozen of them on a pinhead.c -- Christopher Evans %%L In the future, you're going to get computers as prizes in breakfast cereals.D You'll throw them out because your house will be littered with them. -- Robert Luckyy %%H Get hold of portable property.  -- Charles Dickens, "Great Expectations" %%F Overall, the philosophy is to attack the availability problem from twoJ complementary directions:  to reduce the number of software errors throughD rigorous testing of running systems, and to reduce the effect of theN remaining errors by providing for recovery from them.  An interesting footnoteK to this design is that now a system failure can usually be considered to bedM the result of two program errors:  the first, in the program that started theoG problem; the second, in the recovery routine that could not protect the P system.  -- A. L. Scherr, "Functional Structure of IBM Virtual Storage OperatingJ Systems, Part II: OS/VS-2 Concepts and Philosophies," IBM Systems Journal,! Vol. 12, No. 4, 1973, pp. 382-400a %%L I have sacrificed time, health, and fortune, in the desire to complete theseK Calculating Engines.  I have also declined several offers of great personal L advantage to myself.  But, notwithstanding the sacrifice of these advantagesM for the purpose of maturing an engine of almost intellectual power, and aftermI expending from my own private fortune a larger sum than the government ofaL England has spent on that machine, the execution of which it only commenced,K I have received neither an acknowledgement of my labors, not even the offeraL of those honors or rewards which are allowed to fall within the reach of men< who devote themselves to purely scientific investigations...  mK If the work upon which I have bestowed so much time and thought were a mereaL triumph over mechanical difficulties, or simply curious, or if the executionN of such engines were of doubtful practicability or utility, some justificationK might be found for the course which has been taken; but I venture to asserteM that no mathematician who has a reputation to lose will ever publicly express H an opinion that such a machine would be useless if made, and that no manM distinguished as a civil engineer will venture to declare the construction ofc such machinery impracticable...y  aK And at a period when the progress of physical science is obstructed by thattL exhausting intellectual and manual labor, indispensable for its advancement,G which it is the object of the Analytical Engine to relieve, I think thecC application of machinery in aid of the most complicated and abtrusemN calculations can no longer be deemed unworthy of the attention of the country.I In fact, there is no reason why mental as well as bodily labor should note& be economized by the aid of machinery.9 - Charles Babbage, Passage from the Life of a Philosopher  %%; How many hardware guys does it take to change a light bulb?e  hG "Well the diagnostics say it's fine buddy, so it's a software problem."b %%K "Don't try to outweird me, three-eyes.  I get stranger things than you freea with my breakfast cereal."7 - Zaphod Beeblebrox in "Hithiker's Guide to the Galaxy"l %%% Uncompensated overtime?  Just Say No.i %%# Decaffeinated coffee?  Just Say No.  %%> "Show business is just like high school, except you get paid."
 - Martin MullJ %%1 "This isn't brain surgery; it's just television."n - David Lettermanl %%1 "Morality is one thing.  Ratings are everything."l* - A Network 23 executive on "Max Headroom" %% Live free or die.- %%L "...if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust,H  this would be a better world."  - Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegon Days" %%J Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.  Inside of a dog, it is too
 dark to read.t %%J "Probably the best operating system in the world is the [operating system]F  made for the PDP-11 by Bell Laboratories." - Ted Nelson, October 1977 %%B "All these black people are screwing up my democracy." - Ian Smith %% Use the Force, Luke. %%" I've got a bad feeling about this. %%L The power to destroy a planet is insignificant when compared to the power of
 the Force.
 - Darth Vader  %%< When I left you, I was but the pupil.  Now, I am the master.
 - Darth Vadern %%I "Well, well, well!  Well if it isn't fat stinking billy goat Billy Boy intK poison!  How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap stinking chip oil?  ComeoI and get one in the yarbles, if ya have any yarble, ya eunuch jelly thou!"e - Alex in "Clockwork Orange" %%K "There was nothing I hated more than to see a filthy old drunkie, a howlingeM away at the sons of his father and going blurp blurp in between as if it wereeK a filthy old orchestra in his stinking rotten guts.  I could never stand tosG see anyone like that, especially when they were old like this one was."i - Alex in "Clockwork Orange" %%D 186,000 Miles per Second.  It's not just a good idea.  IT'S THE LAW. %%* Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward. %%1 Gee, Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.' %%O Children begin by loving their parents.  After a time they judge them.  Rarely,n if ever, do they forgive them.
 - Oscar Wildeh %% Single tasking: Just Say No. %%6 "Catch a wave and you're sitting on top of the world." - The Beach Boys %%J "Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas."t - Ian Fleming, "Casino Royale" %%K "I think trash is the most important manifestation of culture we have in mya
 lifetime." - Johnny Legendr %%P By one count there are some 700 scientists with respectable academic credentialsL (out of a total of 480,000 U.S. earth and life scientists) who give credenceN to creation-science, the general theory that complex life forms did not evolve but appeared "abruptly."! - Newsweek, June 29, 1987, pg. 23  %%M Even if you can deceive people about a product through misleading statements,s2 sooner or later the product will speak for itself. - Hajime Karatsu %%J In order to succeed in any enterprise, one must be persistent and patient.I Even if one has to run some risks, one must be brave and strong enough to H meet and overcome vexing challenges to maintain a successful business inF the long run.  I cannot help saying that Americans lack this necessary challenging spirit today.e - Hajime Karatsu %%! Memories of you remind me of you.i -- Karl Lehenbauer %%# Life.  Don't talk to me about life.e - Marvin the Paranoid Anroid %%% On a clear disk you can seek forever.o %%1 The world is coming to an end--save your buffers!  %%/ grep me no patterns and I'll tell you no lines.r %% It is your destiny.R
 - Darth Vader% %%K Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no substitute for a good blaster at 
 your side.
 - Han Solo %%; How many QA engineers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?   hF 3: 1 to screw it in and 2 to say "I told you so" when it doesn't work. %%< How many NASA managers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?  t1 "That's a known problem... don't worry about it."% %% To be is to program. %% To program is to be. %% I program, therefore I am. %%7 People are very flexible and learn to adjust to strangen; surroundings -- they can become accustomed to read Lisp and  Fortran programs, for example.: - Leon Sterling and Ehud Shapiro, Art of Prolog, MIT Press %% "I am your density.")   -- George McFly in "Back to the Future"a %%8 "So why don't you make like a tree, and get outta here."!   -- Biff in "Back to the Future"  %%P "Falling in love makes smoking pot all day look like the ultimate in restraint."  -- Dave Sim, author of Cerebrus. %%6 The existence of god implies a violation of causality. %%B "I may kid around about drugs, but really, I take them seriously." - Doctor Graper  %%H Operating-system software is the program that orchestrates all the basic functions of a computer.? - The Wall Street Journal, Tuesday, September 15, 1987, page 40  %% I pledge allegiance to the flag  of the United States of America,( and to the republic for which it stands, one nation,E indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. - Francis Bellamy, 1892a %%N People think my friend George is weird because he wears sideburns...behind hisM ears.  I think he's weird because he wears false teeth...with braces on them.u -- Steven Wright %%L My brother sent me a postcard the other day with this big sattelite photo ofB the entire earth on it. On the back it said: "Wish you were here".  -- Steven Wrightt %%4 You can't have everything... where would you put it? -- Steven Wright %%O I was playing poker the other night... with Tarot cards. I got a full house andt 4 people died. -- Steven Wright %%N You know that feeling when you're leaning back on a stool and it starts to tip, over?  Well, that's how I feel all the time. -- Steven Wright %%M I came home the other night and tried to open the door with my car keys...andtM the building started up.  So I took it out for a drive.  A cop pulled me overL8 for speeding.  He asked me where I live... "Right here". -- Steven Wright %%# "Live or die, I'll make a million.",O -- Reebus Kneebus, before his jump to the center of the earth, Firesign Theater  %%B The typical page layout program is nothing more than an electronic. light table for cutting and pasting documents. %%A There are bugs and then there are bugs.  And then there are bugs.i -- Karl Lehenbauer %%& My computer can beat up your computer. - Karl Lehenbauerl %%! Kill Ugly Processor Architecturesw - Karl Lehenbauer  %% Kill Ugly Radioo
 - Frank Zappan %% "Just Say No."   - Nancy Reagane  u  "No."            - Ronald Reagan %%M I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder.  It's aoI very powerful emotion.  All children feel it.  In a first grade classroom K everybody feels it; in a twelfth grade classroom almost nobody feels it, ornM at least acknowledges it.  Something happens between first and twelfth grade,aK and it's not just puberty.  Not only do the schools and the media not teacheJ much skepticism, there is also little encouragement of this stirring senseE of wonder.  Science and pseudoscience both arouse that feeling.  Poor K popularizations of science establish an ecological niche for pseudoscience.iP - Carl Sagan, The Burden Of Skepticism, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 12, Fall 87 %%K If science were explained to the average person in a way that is accessibleiL and exciting, there would be no room for pseudoscience.  But there is a kindK of Gresham's Law by which in popular culture the bad science drives out the M good.  And for this I think we have to blame, first, the scientific communityeM ourselves for not doing a better job of popularizing science, and second, therL media, which are in this respect almost uniformly dreadful.  Every newspaperE in America has a daily astrology column.  How many have even a weeklysH astronomy column?  And I believe it is also the fault of the educationalK system.  We do not teach how to think.  This is a very serious failure that M may even, in a world rigged with 60,000 nuclear weapons, compromise the humans future.rP - Carl Sagan, The Burden Of Skepticism, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 12, Fall 87 %%L "I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience.  AndK in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has theeF additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.P - Carl Sagan, The Burden Of Skepticism, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 12, Fall 87 %%N I'm often asked the question, "Do you think there is extraterrestrial intelli-N gence?"  I give the standard arguments -- there are a lot of places out there,O and use the word *billions*, and so on.  And then I say it would be astonishingoO to me if there weren't extraterrestrial intelligence, but of course there is asaN yet no compelling evidence for it.  And then I'm asked, "Yeah, but what do youI really think?"  I say, "I just told you what I really think."  "Yeah, buteL what's your gut feeling?"  But I try not to think with my gut.  Really, it's2 okay to reserve judgment until the evidence is in.P - Carl Sagan, The Burden Of Skepticism, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 12, Fall 87 %%A Repel them.  Repel them.  Induce them to relinquish the spheroid.hH - Indiana University fans' chant for their perennially bad football team %%/ If it's working, the diagnostics say it's fine.W3 If it's not working, the diagnostics say it's fine. 7 - A proposed addition to rules for realtime programmingt %%G    It is either through the influence of narcotic potions, of which alleL primitive peoples and races speak in hymns, or through the powerful approachM of spring, penetrating with joy all of nature, that those Dionysian stirrings K arise, which in their intensification lead the individual to forget himselftM completely. . . .Not only does the bond between man and man come to be forgedoI once again by the magic of the Dionysian rite, but alienated, hostile, or L subjugated nature again celebrates her reconciliation with her prodigal son, man.& - Fred Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy %%O The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries betweennO the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience,,J makes it posible with their help, and after suitable internal and externalN perparation...to evoke a mystical experience according to plan, so to speak...M I see the true importance of LSD in the possibility of providing materail aidmI to meditation aimed at the mystical experience of a deeper, comprehensivehL reality.  Such a use accords entirely with the essence and working character of LSD as a sacred drug.+ - Dr. Albert Hoffman, the discoverer of LSDp %%I I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisisiH pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied onlyN by a change in our world view.  We shall have to shift from the materialistic,I dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward amC new conciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces thesK experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animatee nature and all of creation.n - Dr. Albert Hoffman %%N Deliberate provocation of mystical experience, particularly by LSD and relatedH hallucinogens, in contrast to spontaneous visionary experiences, entailsF dangers that must not be underestimated.  Practitioners must take intoI account the peculiar effects of these substances, namely their ability to M influence our consciousness, the innermost essence of our being.  The historyeH of LSD to date amply demonstrates the catastrophic consequences that canI ensue when its profound effect is misjudged and the substance is mistakeniH for a pleasure drug.  Special internal and external advance preperationsB are required; with them, an LSD experiment can become a meaningful experience. + - Dr. Albert Hoffman, the discoverer of LSDb %%L I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capabilityL more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjutionL with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonder child.+ - Dr. Albert Hoffman, the discoverer of LSDe %%M In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who arec	 prepared.m - Louis Pasteurn %% core error - bus dumpedm %%L If imprinted foil seal under cap is broken or missing when purchased, do not use. %%9 "Come on over here, baby, I want to do a thing with you."'M - A Cop, arresting a non-groovy person after the revolution, Firesign Theater  %% "Ahead warp factor 1"s - Captain Kirk %%K    Fiery energy lanced out, but the beams struck an intangible wall between - the Gubru and the rapidly turning Earth ship.s  tL    "Water!" it shrieked as it read the spectral report.  "A barrier of waterJ vapor!  A civilized race could not have found such a trick in the Library!K A civilized race could not have stooped so low!  A civilized race would noty have..."  5D    It screamed as the Gubru ship hit a cloud of drifting snowflakes.  t  - Startide Rising, by David Brin %% Harrison's Postulate: < 	For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. %% Mr. Cole's Axiom: 9 	The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant;  	the population is growing.  %%
 Felson's Law: < 	To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from 	many is research. %%L ...Another writer again agreed with all my generalities, but said that as anK inveterate skeptic I have closed my mind to the truth.  Most notably I have J ignored the evidence for an Earth that is six thousand years old.  Well, IO haven't ignored it; I considered the purported evidence and *then* rejected it.nF There is a difference, and this is a difference, we might say, betweenI prejudice and postjudice.  Prejudice is making a judgment before you have L looked at the facts.  Postjudice is making a judgment afterwards.  PrejudiceI is terrible, in the sense that you commit injustices and you make serioustK mistakes.  Postjudice is not terrible.  You can't be perfect of course; youeK may make mistakes also.  But it is permissible to make a judgment after youiC have examined the evidence.  In some circles it is even encouraged.tK - Carl Sagan, The Burden of Skepticism, Skeptical Enquirer, Vol. 12, pg. 46n %%N If a person (a) is poorly, (b) receives treatment intended to make him better,L and (c) gets better, then no power of reasoning known to medical science canN convince him that it may not have been the treatment that restored his health.+ - Sir Peter Medawar, The Art of the Solublel %%E America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up..
 - Oscar WildeR %%P Unix:  Some say the learning curve is steep, but you only have to climb it once. -- Karl Lehenbauer %%  Sometimes, too long is too long. - Joe Crower %%N When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one,1 an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.e - Edmund Burke %%H Behind all the political rhetoric being hurled at us from abroad, we areN bringing home one unassailable fact -- [terrorism is] a crime by any civilizedM standard, committed against innocent people, away from the scene of politicalg2 conflict, and must be dealt with as a crime. . . .P    [I]n our recognition of the nature of terrorism as a crime lies our best hope of dealing with it. . . .FN    [L]et us use the tools that we have.  Let us invoke the cooperation we haveM the right to expect around the world, and with that cooperation let us shrink L the dark and dank areas of sanctuary until these cowardly marauders are heldK to answer as criminals in an open and public trial for the crimes they haveo= committed, and receive the punishment they so richly deserve.sL - William H. Webster, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 15 Oct 1985 %%M "Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst."v - Thomas Paine %%M "I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit.  It's the only way to be sure."  - Corporal Hicks, in "Aliens"s %%J "There is nothing so deadly as not to hold up to people the opportunity toN do great and wonderful things, if we wish to stimulate them in an active way.". - Dr. Harold Urey, Nobel Laureate in chemistry %%H "...proper attention to Earthly needs of the poor, the depressed and theF downtrodden, would naturally evolve from dynamic, articulate, spiritedL awareness of the great goals for Man and the society he conspired to erect."P - David Baker, paraphrasing Harold Urey, in "The History of Manned Space Flight" %%J "Athens built the Acropolis.  Corinth was a commercial city, interested inL purely materialistic things.  Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the5 old temples, yet we hardly ever set foot in Corinth."e. - Dr. Harold Urey, Nobel Laureate in chemistry %%