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Grammar is not a vice (though excessive picking at it can be). And nonstandard words/grammar can be used to good effect--but no one can do that without knowing how they're deviating.
-- Randy Clark
"That's a hell of an ambition, to be mellow. It's like wanting to be senile."
-- Randy Newman
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
-- Arthur C. Clarke
"Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good night."
-- Andy Warhol
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
-- Andy Finkel
Glamour is that indefinable something about a girl who has a large bosom.
-- Andy Rothman
I don't like to spread gossip, but what else can you do with it?
-- Sandy Hereld
The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them.
-- Randy K. Milholland (Something Positive Comic, 2001-10-30)
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
-- Andy Tanenbaum
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow
Arthur C. Clarke's Law :
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
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.
-- Andy Rooney
People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.
-- Andy Warhol
Don't you think that with the proper amount of manpower, pliers, ropes, belts and duct tape, you actually COULD lead a horse to water AND make it drink?
-- Andy Overman
The UNIX system has a command, 'nice', which allows a user to voluntarily reduce the priority of his process, in order to be nice to other users. Nobody ever uses it.
-- Andy Tanenbaum
On emulating hormones and long-range neurotransmitters:
"If your job is delivering packages and all the packages are very small and your boss doesn't care who you give them to as long as it's on the correct continent and you have until the next ice age to get the work done, then you don't have a very difficult profession. I see no reason why simulating that anachronism would present the slightest difficulty."
-- John K. Clark