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- 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"
- Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
- W.C. Fields
- Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing.
- Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
- Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
- G.K. Chesterton
- Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.
- Alexander Haig
- If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Alimony: the ransom the happy pay to the devil.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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