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When you have to deal with the god-awful instruction set of the X86, you may as well get paid.
-- ECE/CS 552 Professor Mark Hill (explaining why we would be studying the MIPS architecture instead.)
If the mind were exercised as much as the mouth, we would be a race of geniuses.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
"This space intentionally has nothing but text explaining why this space has nothing but text explaining that this space would otherwise have been left blank, and would otherwise have been left blank."
If the brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
I'm not a perfectionist. That would be a character flaw.
I think - therefore I'm single.
-- Liz Winstead
"What dismays me about technology is this: not the machine itself but the way its architecture echoes outward, imposing a grid of quantification on everything it touches."
(https://www.artpractical.com/column/the-metrics-of-backpacks/)
If God had meant for us to go around naked we would have been born that way.
Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.
-- J. P. McEvoy
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop
Television: the bland leading the bland.
If you sat a monkey down in front of a keyboard, the first thing typed would be a UNIX command.
-- Bill Lye
If all the salmon caught in Canada in one year were laid end to end across the Sahara Desert, the smell would be absolutely awful.
I'm opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
-- Mark Twain
"Making the simple complicated is easy. Making the complicated simple is brilliant."
"Drive in no traffic and leave the turn signal on, it doesn't make any difference"
-- John Glenn (on why space would be a good place for seniors to live)
Microsoft: Re-inventing the square wheel.
Lecture, n: Where the notes of the professor become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either one.
If I had a degree, it would be in Literary Criticism and Cinema Studies. I would never consider a technical degree; how-to stuff, I think, should be self-taught or trade school taught. Training has nothing to do with education, which is what belongs in universities.
-- Roger Klorese
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat."
-- Mark Twain
Reporter to Ghandi: What do you think of western civilisation?
Ghandi: I think it would be a very good idea.
The law should make men free. The problem is making the law free.