This week's fun lines, sayings or quotes.

[pommystuart]

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonderful.
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If at first you don't succeed, transform your data set.
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The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
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If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z where X is work,
Y is play, Z is keep your mouth shut.
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FUN is hereditary. If your parents never had too much, then sorry!
but, the chances are that you won't either. UNLESS you do something
about it... (but I am wrong sometimes!)
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If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.
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BASIC is to PASCAL what AMERICAN is to ENGLISH

[Michael]

BASIC is to PASCAL what AMERICAN is to ENGLISH

[pommystuart]

The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.
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True, Computers aren't too reliable, but humans are even more unreliable.
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The only difference between the fool, and the criminal who attacks a system is that the fool attacks unpredictably and on a broader front.
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The fault lies not with our technologies but with our systems.
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Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there will be some Federal, State or local LAW or (ordinance) (Byelaw) under which you can be booked!
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If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
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Nobody notices when things go right.

[Michael]

If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

[Randi]

I remember seeing that one LONG ago....

[pommystuart]

"You don't have to explain something you never said"
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"A little caution outflanks a large cavalry"
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"There are a lot of lies going around.... and half of them are true."
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A computer program that RUNS is only software, that has not crashed...YET!
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"Pioneering basically amounts to finding new and more horrible ways to die"
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"That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest"
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Life is not one thing after another. it's the same damn thing over and over!

[Michael]

[Randi]

Particularly good this week!

[pommystuart]

"Assuming that either the left wing or the right wing gained control of
the country, it would probably fly around in circles"
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"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself"
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"I've seen many politicians paralysed in the legs as myself, but I've
seen more of them who were paralysed in the head"
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"You don't have to explain something you never said"
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"A little caution outflanks a large cavalry"
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"There are a lot of lies going around.... and half of them are true."
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"That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest"
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[Michael]

[pommystuart]

A computer program that RUNS is only software, that has not crashed...YET!
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Any given program, when running correctly, is obsolete.
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"Pioneering basically amounts to finding new and more horrible ways to die"
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Life is not one thing after another. it's the same damn thing over and over!
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The meek will inherit the Earth..... The rest of us will go to the stars.
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After all is said and done, a lot more has been said than done.
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There is no remedy for fun but more fun (now) !
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[Randi]

[Michael]

[pommystuart]

"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought."
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I really hate this damn machine, I wish that they would sell it.
It never does just what I want, but only what I tell it.
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"There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them"
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"Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!"
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Mythology: The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin,early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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Give me the Luxuries, and the Hell with the Necessities!

[pommystuart]

Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while
you expound your own.
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When in charge, ponder.
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When in trouble, delegate.
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When in doubt, mumble.
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Deliberation: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
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Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.
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"If dolphins are so smart, why did Flipper work for television?"
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[Michael]

[pommystuart]

Barometer: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
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The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
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Keep emotionally active. Cater to your favourite neurosis.
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Things will get worse before they get better.
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Who said things would get better?
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"We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Phone Company."
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Do what comes naturally now. Seethe and fume and throw a tantrum.
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[Michael]