Screw up your courage! You've screwed up everything else. Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement. Afterism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don't think of until too late. -- James Alexander Thom All things are possible, except skiing thru a revolving door. If I don't see you in the future, I'll see you in the pasture. I know it all. I just can't remember it all at once. We have only two things to worry about: That things will never get back to normal, and that they already have. There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about. Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules: The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent. "We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation." -- Lily Tomlin Genetics explains why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should. If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some. All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -- E. Rutherford Pittsburgh Driver's Test (8) Pedestrians are (a) irrelevant. (b) communists. (c) a nuisance. (d) difficult to clean off the front grille. The correct answer is (a). Pedestrians are not in cars, so they are totally irrelevant to driving; you should ignore them completely. You have the capacity to learn from mistakes. You'll learn a lot today. Naeser's Law: You can make it foolproof, but you can't make it damnfoolproof. "Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished." -- Goethe All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea. -- John Ciardi Bradley's Bromide: If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in. "Reality is a sandwich I did not order", Zippy the Pinhead.