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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

-- Henry Brooks Adams
Humor is just another defense against the universe
-- Mel Brooks
"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."
-- Phillips Brooks
The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
-- Henry Becque
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
-- Douglas Adams
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.
-- Fred Brooks
With a rubber duck, one's never alone.
-- Douglas Adams (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."
-- Douglas Adams
"It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'as pretty as an airport' exist."
-- Douglas Adams
"The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks."
-- Douglas Adams (Dirk Gently)
"We need a president who's fluent in at least one language."
-- Buck Henry
The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
-- Douglas Adams (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)