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I know that most men including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conlusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleages which they have proudly taught to others and which they have woven thread by thread into the fabric of their lives. The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience. Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man. If there is one basic element in our Constitution it is civilian control of the military. Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority it is time to reform. God made the Idiot for practice and then He made the School Board. I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. Sacred cows make the best hamburger. How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. If a person offend you and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not do not resort to extreme measures. Simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick. We are just tenants on this world. We have just been given a new lease and a warning from the landlord. The woman of my dreams knows how to break into systems. Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art. Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home. To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy. War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied. The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition. Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike they die without any idea of death they have no theologians to instruct them their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies their funerals cost them nothing and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. I have never made but one prayer to God a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it. The superfluous is very necessary. It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. A witty saying proves nothing. Anything too stupid to be said is sung. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull but also just stupid. Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity. We can lick gravity but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong. Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is of course in a state of sin. [End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...]. It is easier to port a shell than a shell script. History is more or less bunk. Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-). Before the Gulf War started the Iraqi Army was the the fourth largest in the world. Now its the second largest army in Iraq. Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness? They say that time changes things but actually you have to change them yourself. Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! It is a dangerous servant and a terrible master. At Group L Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats. Now let me explain why this makes intuitive sense. Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. Relative calm is expected in South Central Los Angeles for the next several weeks as looters stay home and try to program their new VCRs. My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. The chalk marks are transient the formulas eternal. As far as we know our computer has never had an undetected error. Man is not a machine... Although man most certainly processes information he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and men are not species of the same genus... However much intelligence computers may attain now or in the furture theirs must always be an intelligence alien to genuine human problems and concerns. Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom. The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. |
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