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"There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't."

A cell is like a pixel on your monitor. All by itself, it doesn't really do much. But grouped together with all of its buddies, you get the big picture! -- CarsonWhitsett

"I don't see why anyone would need more then 56K." Bill Gates I've usually heard this one as: "640K ought to be enough for anybody." Same difference. I thought it was: "I don't see why anyone would need more than one company" Hahaahha :-) "Carson's thought on it?"

"There will never be a need for more then two or three computers in the world."

Every great scientific truth goes through three stages:

First, people say it conflicts with the Bible.
Next they say it had been discovered before.
Lastly, they say they always believed it.

-- JeanLouisAgassiz? (1807-1883)

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. -- HowardAiken??

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the Ready-Aim-Aim-Aim Syndrome. You must be willing to fire. -- T. Boone Pickens

Premade NesQuik is the best stuff in the world. -J. Nelson

"He's the glue that holds the gears of this organization together" -- ?

LOL! -cw

Thompson's Rule for first-time telescope makers:

It is faster to make a four-inch mirror than to make a six-inch mirror.

The fastest algorithm can frequently be replaced by one that is almost as fast and much easier to understand. -- ?

A week of coding can spare an hour of thought. -- ?

An hour of coding can spare a week of thought. -- ?+1

There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. -- C.A.R. Hoare

"VisualBasic is so easy to use -- all you need is a spacebar and a forehead" -- ?

"Just because a thing can be done, doesn't mean that it should be done." -- ?

"Our system is already Y2K compliant but you can improve your Y2K compliance by using the special CD, which carries out some minor fixes." -- Microsoft

"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from." (Andrew Tannenbaum, I believe)

For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, elegant, and wrong. -- H.L. Menken

What a dreadful world it would be if actually did possess the skill to convey something other than what we really are. -- Richard Farson

(Note, several quotes above were culled from Wiki:QuotePage)

I feel more like I do now than I have all day.

I think therefore I know nothing.---KW

"I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science." -- Donald E. Knuth, TAoCP vol 3

"Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." -- Richard Feynmann

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ - Big Bird

"The secret to flying is to throw yourself at the ground, and miss. HGTTG

I've noticed that the U.S. *is* a rather polite society (in a fragile kind of way.) I've often thought that this is because the U.S. culture has handed over its interpersonal speech to lawyers, while giving its citizens military weapons. It's a curious inversion, seen from the outside. -- Colin McCormack? on linux-kernel-ml (posting from Australia)

Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe. -- VP Dan Quayle

Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? -- Unknown

In politics stupidity is not a handicap. -- Napoleon Bonaparte

I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it. -- Ashleigh Brilliant

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. -- Nathaniel Borenstein

Breidbart's Law says "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with quarter-inch tapes."

Curiosity was framed; ignorance killed the cat. -- Author unknown

 "Open your present...."
 "No, you open your present...."
 Kaczinski Christmas. 
                  -- Unabomber Haiku Contest

"Nihilists! Jesus. Say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos."

                  -- Walter Sobchak

Our Lager, Which art in Tavern, Hallowed be thy foam, Thy Round shall come Thy Drink be drunk, At home as it is in tavern. Give us this day our foamy head, And forgive us our spillages, As we forgive those who spill against us, Lead us not into incarceration, And deliver us from Cider, For thine is the Beer, The Bitter and the Lager, Forever and Ever, Barmen

If humans were supposed to fly they'd be born with stewardesses...

Always remember: When you are mad at someone, it takes 43 muscles to frown, but only 6 to slap them. - Unknown

Q: How many cans can a canner can if a canner can can cans?

What do you mean, in an African or a European cannery?

If at first you don't succeed... Get a bigger hammer!

"Greetings from the Great White North, Hoser!" - Bob and Doug McKenzie?

"When C++ is your hammer, everything looks like a thumb." -- Anon

2 + 2 = 5 . . . for very large values of 2.

"We will put food on every family." George W. Bush

"I think, therefore I'm not really here." A deranged piano bar patron, or a thoughtful opponant of existentialism, you decide. (WP)

"How come you can't see the air, but you can feel it?" Jake, age 6, asking about the wind.

"The problem with political jokes is that they get elected."

"It gets late early out there."

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it"

"85% of the game is half mental"

All by Yogi Berra

"We've gotta make the pie higher!"

George W. Bush

Hi, I'm George Dubya Bush, the 43rd President of the United States

Anynomous (actually GWB)

"I have always been here."

  --Kosh

"All glory comes from daring to begin"

George Brolaski

To the pessimist the glass is half empty. To the optimist the glass is half full. To the engineer the glass ist twice as big as necessary.

Don't know who

A teenager's life is like a racecar. Everyone's trying to steer it in the right direction.

          -JP Squirrel

"Why is it when we talk to God, we're said to be praying - but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?" Lily Tomlin

"Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself." Doris Lessing

"Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten." Wendy Kaminer

"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." Lily Tomlin

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people." Virginia Woolf

int main( ) {

   printf("ENOUGH HELLOS");
   return 0;

}

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