やっと秋らしい天候になってまいりました。
日中はまだまだ暑いですが、体調の崩れなど
なさいませんように!さて、今月の新刊です。
「鞍馬天狗」 川西 政明・著 岩波新書 700円
大正・昭和の小説や映画で一時代を築いた鞍馬天狗。
大佛次郎のシリーズ小説四十七作を基に、勤王の浪士と
して幕末をどう生きたか、その革命観、人を斬る意識の
移り変わりを綿密に分析する。「幕末維新・あの人のその後」 日本博学倶楽部
PHP文庫 514円新撰組から明治の指導者、かの坂本龍馬、最後の将軍
徳川慶喜など、幕末の輝けるヒーローは数多い、ところが、
彼らの名前は知っていても、「あの人は、それからどう
なった？」と聞かれたら思わず悩んでしまうものだろう。本書は誰もが知っている有名人からキラリと光る名脇役
まで、彼らの気になる「その後」を大紹介！「新選組隊士・
斎藤一は警視庁で働いていた？」「将軍・徳川慶喜は維新
後どうなった？」「榎本武揚はシベリア横断旅行に出かけ
た？」など、教科書には載っていない意外なエピソードが
目白押し。
つい他人に話したくなる話題満載の歴史雑学本。では、また。
Democracy is where you can say what you think even if you don’t think.
Democracy is where you can say what you think even if you don’t think.
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
I hope life isn’t a big joke … because I don’t get it.
If you take something apart and put it back together again enough times, you will eventually have enough parts left over to build a second one.
If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.
The internet is not something you just dump something on. It’s not a truck. It’s a series of tubes!
When you’ve seen one non-sequitur, the price of tea in China.
Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Military glory — that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood — that serpent’s eye, that charms to destroy…
Write a wise word and your name will live forever.
You’ll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks.
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
It was the experience of mystery — even if mixed with fear — that engendered religion.
We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
Let him who takes the Plunge remember to return it by Tuesday.
Gentleman: Knows how to play the bagpipes, but doesn’t.
Gentleman: Knows how to play the bagpipes, but doesn’t.
If theres one thing I know its God does love a good joke.
Future historians will be able to study at the Jimmy Carter Library, the Gerald Ford Library, the Ronald Reagan Library, and the Bill Clinton Adult Bookstore.
I Can’t Think Of Anything Reasonable To Counter Your Argument Or Don’t Have The Least Inkling Of The Subject So I Will Resort To Name Calling And Hope I Can Get Away With It.
Ask her to wait a moment – I am almost done.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
We need either less corruption or more chance to participate in it.
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
UNIX is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn’t.
We’re going to turn this team around 360 degrees.
Linux is like living in a teepee. No Windows, no Gates, Apache in house.
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
Linux is like living in a teepee. No Windows, no Gates, Apache in house.
Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
It’s strange, isn’t it. You stand in the middle of a library and go ‘aaaaagghhhh’ and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in.
I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax — tomorrow you’ll be afraid to cough.
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
I’m very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Nice doggie!’… ‘til you can find a rock.
A [pseudo]random number generator is much like sex: when it’s good it’s wonderful, and when it’s bad it’s still pretty good.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Why did God create dentists? — In his infinite love, he thought it would be charitable to His creatures to let them see what Hell is like, during their lives.
In the begining there was nothing and God said ‘Let there be light’, and there was still nothing but everybody could see it.
Real punks help little old ladies across the street because it shocks more people than if they spit on the sidewalk.
Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster is a maniac?
If FORTRAN has been called an infantile disorder, then PL/I must be classified as a fatal disease.
We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me
If you take something apart and put it back together again enough times, you will eventually have enough parts left over to build a second one.
We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.
Roses are #FF0000 Violets are #0000FF All my base are belong to you!
Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
Life would be so much easier if we could just see the source code.
Testing proves the presence, not the absence, of bugs.
The only way to combat criminals is by not voting for them.
We are not retreating – we are advancing in another Direction.
When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.
Pascal /n./ A programming language named after a man who would turn over in his grave if he knew about it.
Pascal /n./ A programming language named after a man who would turn over in his grave if he knew about it.
I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather… not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car…
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
If theres one thing I know its God does love a good joke.
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a ‘C’, the idea must be feasible.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Real life is that big, high-res, high-color screen saver behind all the windows.
Don’t be so humble – you are not that great.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
The truth is more important than the facts.
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.
It’s impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood… War is hell.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
There is no idea so simple and powerful that you can’t get zillions of people to misunderstand it.
We are Dyslexia of Borg. Fusistance is retile. Your ass will be laminated.
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.
I’d stop eating chocolate, but I’m no quitter.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
Don’t sweat the petty things, just pet the sweaty things.
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
It’s wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.
The chain reaction of evil — wars producing more wars — must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
It’s wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
Statistics is like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive. What they conceal is vital.
I know that there are people in this world who do not love their fellow human beings, and I hate people like that.
Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it
Some men, in order to prevent the supposed intentions of their adversaries, have committed the most enormous cruelties.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Future historians will be able to study at the Jimmy Carter Library, the Gerald Ford Library, the Ronald Reagan Library, and the Bill Clinton Adult Bookstore.
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
I’m Jewish. I don’t work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.
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. The first method is far more difficult.
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
My current job sucks so hard, black holes are going green with envy.
If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.
A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: ‘Can I help, sir?’ ‘No thanks,’ says the blind bloke. ‘Just looking.’
I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.
In this war as in others I am less interested in honoring the dead than in preventing the dead.
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
It’s dangerous to underestimate the intelligence of a customer who grew a business that’s successful enough to require a large and complex set of software
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
It was the experience of mystery — even if mixed with fear — that engendered religion.
You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.
Biologically speaking, if something bites you it’s more likely to be female.
Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.
The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
We’ve all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
We are not retreating – we are advancing in another Direction.
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done.
I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.
I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
Honolulu, it’s got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, and sharks for the wife’s mother.
I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
Is your argument that the Creator of the Universe was working under a deadline and His manager forced Him to rush inefficient designs into production?
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
Why was I with her? She reminds me of you. In fact, she reminds me more of you than you do!
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster is a maniac?
Copy from one, it’s plagiarism; copy from two, it’s research.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
A [pseudo]random number generator is much like sex: when it’s good it’s wonderful, and when it’s bad it’s still pretty good.
A [pseudo]random number generator is much like sex: when it’s good it’s wonderful, and when it’s bad it’s still pretty good.
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
A radioactive cat has eighteen half-lives.
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
I’m not under the alkafluence of inkahol that some thinkle peep I am. It’s just the drunker I sit here the longer I get.
Did you ever walk in a room and forget why you walked in? I think that’s how dogs spend their lives.
Did you ever walk in a room and forget why you walked in? I think that’s how dogs spend their lives.
Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.
Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.
A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five.
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity.
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: ‘His sins were scarlet but his books were read.
Some men, in order to prevent the supposed intentions of their adversaries, have committed the most enormous cruelties.
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably diserable.
It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren’t, then I’d be a teacher.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.
I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll be glad to make an exception.
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy — the mother.
A radioactive cat has eighteen half-lives.
A radioactive cat has eighteen half-lives.
Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.
It’s the liberal bias. The press is liberally biased to the right.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
Some men, in order to prevent the supposed intentions of their adversaries, have committed the most enormous cruelties.
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: ‘His sins were scarlet but his books were read.
The most overlooked advantage of owning a computer is that if they foul up there’s no law against whacking them around a bit.
We don’t make mistakes, we just have happy little accidents.
I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather… not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car…
I have four children which is not bad considering I’m not a Catholic.
A radioactive cat has eighteen half-lives.
Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?
Chaos Theory is a new theory invented by scientists panicked by the thought that the public were beginning to understand the old ones.
My current job sucks so hard, black holes are going green with envy.
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
DOS Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form.
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book – I’ll waste no time reading it.
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book – I’ll waste no time reading it.
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft… and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
I’m not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
I’m Jewish. I don’t work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor.
War doesn’t make boys men, it makes men dead.
I have six locks on my door, all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three of them.
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft… and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
Incrementing C by 1 is not enough to make a good object-oriented language.
I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather… not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car…
Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.
I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
They laughed when I said I’d be a comedian. They aren’t laughing now.
Nine out of ten doctors agree that one out of ten doctors is an idiot.
There are many kinds of people in the world. Are you one of them?
Why did God create dentists? — In his infinite love, he thought it would be charitable to His creatures to let them see what Hell is like, during their lives.
Love is the answer – but while you’re waiting for the answer sex raises some pretty good questions.
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI !
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.
Marry me and I’ll never look at another horse!
We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
Fill what’s empty, empty what’s full, and scratch where it itches.
The only way to combat criminals is by not voting for them.
Incrementing C by 1 is not enough to make a good object-oriented language.
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
Military glory — that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood — that serpent’s eye, that charms to destroy…
Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things.
A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they’re eating sandwiches.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather… not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car…
Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.
I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She’s 97 today and we don’t know where she is!
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
I’d give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
Biologically speaking, if something bites you it’s more likely to be female.
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
Did you ever walk in a room and forget why you walked in? I think that’s how dogs spend their lives.
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.
The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault.
Mother-in-law = A woman who destroys her son-in-law’s peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers.
Not only is there no God, but you try getting a plumber at weekends.
Military glory — that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood — that serpent’s eye, that charms to destroy…
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
After every ‘victory’ you have more enemies.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
One word sums up probably the responsibility of any Governor, and that one word is ‘to be prepared’.
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity.
Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it
There is only one nature – the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.
A good sermon should be like a woman’s skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.
Incrementing C by 1 is not enough to make a good object-oriented language.
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
2 + 2 = 5, for extremely large values of 2.
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren’t, then I’d be a teacher.
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don’t seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.
I think ‘Hail to the Chief’ has a nice ring to it.
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it — and some of your spouse’s family too.
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it — and some of your spouse’s family too.
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it — and some of your spouse’s family too.
Look at you in war. There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.
If you give a man a fish, he will eat for today. If you teach him to fish, he’ll understand why some people think golf is exciting.
I hear Glenn Hoddle has found God. That must have been one hell of a pass.
Politicians are like diapers. They should be changed often, and for the same reason.
A physicist is an atom’s way of knowing about atoms.
In the begining there was nothing and God said ‘Let there be light’, and there was still nothing but everybody could see it.
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
Love is the answer – but while you’re waiting for the answer sex raises some pretty good questions.
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
If quantum physics doesn’t confuse you then you don’t understand it.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee — that will do them in.
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee — that will do them in.
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions – it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
Subtlety is the art of saying what you think and getting out of the way before it is understood.
I could not possibly fail to disagree with you less.
Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
C combines all the power of assembly language with the ease of use of assembly language
Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
War doesn’t make boys men, it makes men dead.
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
Statistics is like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive. What they conceal is vital.
Statistics is like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive. What they conceal is vital.
Statistics is like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive. What they conceal is vital.
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
Ask her to wait a moment – I am almost done.
Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible.
Raymond’s Law of Software: Given a sufficiently large number of eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.
It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.
If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.
A bird in the hand makes it hard to blow your nose.
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
It’s dangerous to underestimate the intelligence of a customer who grew a business that’s successful enough to require a large and complex set of software
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite.
Lohr’s Law: The future is merely the past with a twist and better tools.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
War doesn’t make boys men, it makes men dead.
Chaos Theory is a new theory invented by scientists panicked by the thought that the public were beginning to understand the old ones.
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
Multitasking /adj./ 3 PCs and a chair with wheels
Multitasking /adj./ 3 PCs and a chair with wheels
Don’t drive me crazy — it’s within walking distance.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they’re yours.
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Computer dating is fine, if you’re a computer.
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
If you can read this you’re not aiming in the right direction.
It’s the liberal bias. The press is liberally biased to the right.
I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.
There is only one nature – the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions – it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.
Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs is ridiculous fiction.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
I think ‘Hail to the Chief’ has a nice ring to it.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives
I could not possibly fail to disagree with you less.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain – and most fools do.
And the clueless shall spend their time reinventing the wheel while the elite merely use the Wordstar key mappings
We are not retreating – we are advancing in another Direction.
So I rang up a local building firm, I said ‘I want a skip outside my house.’ He said ‘I’m not stopping you.’
The only way to combat criminals is by not voting for them.
Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice.
One doesn’t have a sense of humor. It has you.
Men have become the tools of their tools.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think, vulcanize society. So I don’t know how that fits into what everybody else is saying, their relative positions, but that’s my position.
To understand a man you should walk a mile in his shoes. If what he says still bothers you that’s ok because you’ll be a mile away from him and you’ll have his shoes.
‘Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible’, she said, ‘but that alone doesn’t make it true.’
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
DOS Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form.
Devlin’s First Law – Buyer beware: in the hands of a charlatan, mathematics can be used to make a vacuous argument look impressive. Devlin’s Second Law – So can PowerPoint.
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
A [pseudo]random number generator is much like sex: when it’s good it’s wonderful, and when it’s bad it’s still pretty good.
If you believe in telekinesis, raise my hand.
Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people.
Modern capitalism is not about free markets, it is about building sufficient mass that the market gravitationally collapses around you.
Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them.
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft… and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
Modern capitalism is not about free markets, it is about building sufficient mass that the market gravitationally collapses around you.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
A [pseudo]random number generator is much like sex: when it’s good it’s wonderful, and when it’s bad it’s still pretty good.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
A model is done when nothing else can be taken out.
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
Ask her to wait a moment – I am almost done.
Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.
What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage.
Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Early to rise, Early to bed, Makes a man healthy but socially dead.
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy.
No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
Love: The warm feeling you get towards someone who meets your neurotic needs.
Future historians will be able to study at the Jimmy Carter Library, the Gerald Ford Library, the Ronald Reagan Library, and the Bill Clinton Adult Bookstore.
If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.
O’Toole’s Corollary of Finagle’s Law: The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum.
I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.