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Clergyman, n. - A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering his temporal ones.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.: Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund-raising. It reminded me of the first time I saw a gypsy mother send her baby out to beg.: William Hamilton
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated, but not signed.: Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
I first saw President Reagan as a foot, highly polished brown cordovan wagging merrily on a hassock. I spied it through the door. It was a beautiful foot, sleek. Such casual elegance and clean lines! But not a big foot, not formidable, maybe a little ...frail. I imagined cradling it in my arms, protecting it from unsmooth roads.: Peggy Noonan (1950 - ), speechwriter for the Reagan administration
Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard. ('What else could it be?') I was amused to see that Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought that the brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electro-magnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill, and I am told some of the ancient Greeks thought the brain functions like a catapult. At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer.: John R. Searle, MINDS, BRAINS AND SCIENCE, p 44
It's a well known fact that computing devices such as the abacus were invented thousands of years ago. But it's not well known that the first use of a common computer protocol occured in the Old Testament. This, of course, was when Moses aborted the Egyptians' process with a control-sea...": Tom Galloway
pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department.: Jeff Meyer
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)

Results from Poor Man's College:

STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS.: Pete Johnson

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