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- I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle - so all is peace.
- Edward Lear
- Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
- Milton Friedman (1912 - 2006)
- Mr. Gates is up to his eyeballs in his knowledge of this stuff.
- US District Judge Royce Lambeth, ordering CIA Director Robert Gates to testify at the Clair George trial.
- It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals.
- Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi"
- Hana: What on Earth is a 'barbeque'?
Hel: A primitive tribal ritual featuring paper plates, elbows, flying insects, encrusted meat, hush puppies, and beer. Hana: I daren't ask what a 'hush puppy' is. Hel: Don't. - Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi"
- Melpomene was a substantial girl, thick of bosom, ankle, and forearm, rosy of cheek, and clear of eye. She seemed somehow incomplete without her hockey stick.
- Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi"
- Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.
- Unknown
- Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- It's scary to think that the infrastructure of the industrialized world is increasingly based on software like this.
- Stephen Wolfe quoted on page 11 of the August 1992 CAD report refering to AutoCAD rev. 12
- Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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