Quote of the Day

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
-- Isaac Asimov

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I don't do drugs, or worship the devil.
-- Rick Bode (Champagne and Bullets)

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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider godfearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
-- Aristotle (384-322 BCE), "Politics"

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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.
-- George Orwell

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Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin (interviewed in Doctor Dobb's Journal)

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Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell.
-- Matt Groening

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Church, cult. Cult, church. Big deal! So we get bored somewhere else every Sunday!
-- Bartholomew J. Simpson

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God gave man two ears and one tongue so that we listen twice as much as we speak.
-- Arab proverb

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You must lash out with every limb, like the octopus who plays the drums.
-- The Sphinx

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The primary cause of failure in electrical appliances is an expired warranty. Often, you can get an appliance running again simply by changing the warranty expiration date with a 15/64-inch felt-tipped marker.
-- Dave Barry, "The Taming of the Screw"