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To be patriotic, hate all nations but your own; to be religious, all sects but your own; to be moral, all pretenses but your own.
-- Lionel Strachey
Imagine a stegosaurus wearing rocket powered roller skates, and you'll get a fair idea of its elegance, stability and ease of crash recovery.
-- Lionel Lauer
"Words sound stupid--look into my eyes."
-- Michael Stipe
"I think your cats need tuning - according to a couple of quick measurements on a recently calibrated reference cat, the dominant frequency of a correctly adjusted cat should be 12Hz +/-20%."
-- Lionel Lauer (a.s.r)
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky
"Almost any animal is capable learning a stimulus/response association, given enough repitition."
"Experimental observation suggests that this isn't true if double-clicking is involved."
-- Lionel and Malcom Ray (scary devil monastery)
"Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them."
-- Robert Strauss (on conducting)
Analogy is even slipperier than logic.
-- Jubal (Stranger In A Strange Land)
I have a firm grip on reality. Now I can strangle it.
The only good strategy is one that no one else understands.
-- Tracy Kidder