- "If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one." -- John Galsworthy
- "Women complain about sex more than men. Their gripes fall into two categories: 1) Not enough and 2) Too much." -- Ann Landers
- "First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down." -- George Burns
- "The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with." -- Marty Feldman
- "I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image." -- Stephen Hawking
- "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason" -- John Cage [US composer of avant-garde music (1912 - 1992)]
- "Relationships are hard. It's like a full-time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks' notice. There should beseverance pay, and before they leave you, they should have to find you a temp." --Bob Ettinger
- "Borland Pascal with Objects 7.0: Language Guide (Borland International, 1992)
From the index:
recursive loop: See recursive loop"
- "In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing." --Mignon McLaughlin
- "Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it." --Thomas Fuller
- "Uncle Ed's Rule of Thumb:
Never use your thumb for a rule. You'll either hit it with a hammer or get a splinter in it."
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- If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton
- In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton
- If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. -- Hal Abelson
- In computer science, we stand on each other's feet. -- Brian K. Reid
- "Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for." -- Socrates
- We ascribe beauty to that which is simple,
which has no superfluous parts;
which exactly answers its end,
which stands related to all things,
which is the mean of many extremes.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life