The future ain't what it used to be.
-- Yogi Berra
Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Tuesday, December 30, 2025
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It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.
-- Arthur C. Clarke
Monday, December 29, 2025
Sunday, December 28, 2025
Saturday, December 27, 2025
Friday, December 26, 2025
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Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor
Thursday, December 25, 2025
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One does not need to puzzle long over why religionists hate atheists so venomously. Atheist stir up the suppressed doubts of believers to the point of producing anguish. This is the anguish that incited believers to burn heretics and atheists at the stake in olden times to remove the source of the unsettling, disturbing doubts that plagued the believers.
-- C. W. Dalton (The Right Brain and Religion)
Wednesday, December 24, 2025
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You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things, like being spanked every day by a middle aged woman -- stuff you pay good money for in later life.
-- Emo Philips
Tuesday, December 23, 2025
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Like my parents, I have never been a regular church member or churchgoer. It doesn't seem plausible to me that there is the kind of God who watches over human affairs, listens to prayers, and tries to guide people to follow His precepts -- there is just too much misery and cruelty for that. On the other hand, I respect and envy the people who get inspiration from their religions.
-- Benjamin Spock
Monday, December 22, 2025
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Sometimes life seems like a dream, especially when I look down and see that I forgot to put on my pants.
-- Jack Handey
Sunday, December 21, 2025
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He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.
-- Terry Pratchett (Small Gods)
Saturday, December 20, 2025
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If you ever teach a yodeling class, probably the hardest thing is to keep the students from just trying to yodel right off. You see, we build to that.
-- Jack Handey
Friday, December 19, 2025
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The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.
-- Mark Twain
Thursday, December 18, 2025
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Risch's decision procedure for integration, not surprisingly, uses a recursion on the number and type of the extensions from the rational functions needed to represent the integrand. Although the algorithm follows and critically depends upon the appropriate structure of the input, as in the case of multivariate factorization, we cannot claim that the algorithm is a natural one. In fact, the creator of differential algebra, Ritt, committed suicide in the early 1950's, largely, it is claimed, because few paid attention to his work. Probably he would have received more attention had he obtained the algorithm as well.
-- Joel Moses, Algorithms and Complexity, ed. J.F. Traub
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Quote of the Day
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
-- Terry Pratchett
Monday, December 15, 2025
Quote of the Day
Well, I don't really think that the end can be assessed as of itself as being the end because what does the end feel like? It's like saying when you try to extrapolate the end of the universe, you say, if the universe is indeed infinite, then how - what does that mean? How far is all the way, and then if it stops, what's stopping it, and what's behind what's stopping it? So, what's the end, you know, is my question to you.
-- David St. Hubbins
Sunday, December 14, 2025
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The two most beautiful words in the English language are "Cheque Enclosed."
-- Dorothy Parker
Saturday, December 13, 2025
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Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock
Friday, December 12, 2025
Quote of the Day
I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
-- Mark Twain
Thursday, December 11, 2025
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Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
-- Bertrand Russell
Tuesday, December 09, 2025
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The more data I punch in this card, the lighter it becomes, and the lower the mailing cost.
-- S. Kelly-Bootle (The Devil's DP Dictionary)
Monday, December 08, 2025
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The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.
-- Albert Einstein
Saturday, December 06, 2025
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In my land, women are for advancing the race, not for fighting man's battles.
-- Eros (Plan 9 from Outer Space)
Friday, December 05, 2025
Thursday, December 04, 2025
Wednesday, December 03, 2025
Tuesday, December 02, 2025
Monday, December 01, 2025
Quote of the Day
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
-- Donald E. Knuth