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A bit of tolerance is worth a megabyte of flaming.
-- Henry Spencer

"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this."
-- Spencer Silver (on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notes)

Rhetorical subtlety doesn't work on people with the perceptive powers of an eggplant.
-- Spencer Sun

Every silver lining has a cloud.

"Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals."
-- Henry Spencer

Writing novice-friendly documentation is a lot of work. We'd like to do it someday. Holding of breath is not advised.
-- Henry Spencer

Caffeine is not a substitute for sheep.
-- Peter da Silva

"Alcohol is the cause and the solution to many of life's problems."
-- Homer Simpson

"Good food, good meat, good god - let's eat!"
-- Prayer by Homer Simpson

God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Homer Simpson

The loom works perfectly well without the steam powered wig darner and shortbread cutter stapled to the side.
-- Peter da Silva

Listen to the Mustn'ts, child.
Listen to the Don'ts.
Listen to the Shouldn'ts,
The Impossibles, the Won'ts.
Listen to the Never haves,
Then listen close to me--
Anything can happen, child
Anything can be.

-- Shel Silverstein

[Perl] isn't a programming language, it's a thousand special case rules flying in close formation.
-- Peter da Silva

"The main differences between a computer salesman and a used car salesman is that the used car salesman can probably drive and knows when he's lying."
-- Peter da Silva

All right brain, I don't like you and you don't like me - so let's just do this and I'll get back to killing you with beer.
-- Homer Simpson

> 0C is freezing, 100C is boiling, 70F is a nice day, and 110C is a nice
> sauna.
This is the same logic that took out the Mars Polar Lander, I see.

-- Peter da Silva

Q: Why did the tachyon cross the road?
A: Because it was on the other side.

Coincidence happens.