Spiff

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
-- Dykstra

USENET is like drinking from a firehose, you'll get very wet but you probably will still be thirsty.
-- Steve Steinberg

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
-- Mark Twain

The door refused to open. It said, "Five cents, please."

He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. "I'll pay you tomorrow," he
told the door.
Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight.
"What I pay you," he informed it, "is in the nature of a gratuity; I don't have
to pay you."

"I think otherwise," the door said, "Look in the purchase contract you signed
when you bought this [apartment]."

In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it
necessary to refer to the document many times.

"Our life is frittered away by detail ...Simplify, Simplify."
-- Henry David Thoreau
That was easy for him to say: he sat in his cabin and wrote all day, and had Ralph Waldo Emerson's wife make cookies for him, feed him, and in general do all those day-to-day chores for which he had no interest.
-- disappear (jon@lasser.org)

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men - the other 999 follow women.
-- Groucho Marx

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men - the other 999 follow women.
-- Groucho Marx

She got her good looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
-- Groucho Marx

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing; if you can fake that, you've got it made.
-- Groucho Marx

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx

Women who insist on having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type.
-- Fran Lebowitz Metropolitan Life, 1978

Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
-- Fran Lebowitz (b. 1951) American journalist

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death.
-- Fran Lebowitz

Being a woman is of special interest to aspiring male transexuals.

Otaku is a way of involvement, an underground way of changing the ideas about the world.
Otaku are not satisfied with consuming. They want to change things and programs.
They are so much involved. The idol- industry wants consumers, otaku overfulfill their wish.
They don't stand for a classic confrontation, but they do have the capability of an alternative view.
-- Volker Grassmuck