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- Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
- George Saunders' dying words
- Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
- John Barrymore's dying words
- Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Now is the time for all good men to come to.
- Walt Kelly (1913 - 1973)
- I am not an Economist. I am an honest man!
- Paul McCracken
- A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
- John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
- As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
- Jules de Gaultier
- But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses.
- Bruce Leverett - "Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers"
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