Availability is limited. They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. -- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost" I've given up reading books; I find it takes my mind

A soft answer turneth away wrath; but grievous words stir up anger. -- Proverbs 15:1 Don't look now, but the man in the moon is laughing at you. While there's life, there's hope. -- Publius Terentius Afer

If a jury in a criminal trial stays out for more than twenty-four hours, it is certain to vote acquittal, save in those instances where it votes guilty. -- Joseph C. Goulden Having nothing, nothing can

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. -- Mark Twain God doesn't play dice. -- Albert Einstein As part of an ongoing effort to keep you, the Fortune reader, abreast of the valuable information

Klein bottle for rent -- inquire within. The three laws of thermodynamics: (1) You can't get anything without working for it. (2) The most you can accomplish by working is to break even. (3) You can only

Sam: What's the good word, Norm? Norm: Plop, plop, fizz, fizz. Sam: Oh no, not the Hungry Heifer... Norm: Yeah, yeah, yeah... Sam: One heartburn cocktail coming up. -- Cheers, I'll Gladly Pay You Tuesday

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones. -- Bokonon, "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. "[W]hen the policy you are adopting is worse for everybody than a policy you agree is

Q: What's the difference between USL and the Titanic? A: The Titanic had a band. It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C. - A.D. 65) echo "Hmmm...you

Send some filthy mail. Oh this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is. -- Gaius Valerius Catullus "We want to create puppets that pull their own strings." -- Ann Marion "Would this make them

"...[Linux's] capacity to talk via any medium except smoke signals." (By Dr. Greg Wettstein, Roger Maris Cancer Center) "The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with

/* Oops. The kernel tried to access some bad page. We'll have to terminate things with extreme prejudice. */ die_if_kernel("Oops", regs, error_code); (From linux/arch/i386/mm/fault.c) Randal

Never tell a lie unless it is absolutely convenient. Wear me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, passion cruel as the grave; it blazes up like blazing fire,

"No one talks peace unless he's ready to back it up with war." "He talks of peace if it is the only way to live." -- Colonel Green and Surak of Vulcan, "The Savage Curtain",

Wishing without work is like fishing without bait. -- Frank Tyger "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore

The only really decent thing to do behind a person's back is pat it. Canonical, adj.: The usual or standard state or manner of something. A true story: One Bob Sjoberg, new at the MIT AI Lab, expressed

/earth is 98% full ... please delete anyone you can. "How many teamsters does it take to screw in a light bulb?" "FIFTEEN!! YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT?" Sometime in 1993 NANCY SINATRA

Magic is always the best solution -- especially reliable magic. Your analyst has you mixed up with another patient. Don't believe a thing he tells you. If science were explained to the average person in

Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd. Oh no, not again. -- Manoj Srivastava All that glitters has a high refractive index.

The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time, the last 10% takes the other 90% of the time. 1925 With a drink so good, 'tis folly to be thirsty 1929 The high sign of refreshment 1929 The pause that