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"Gentle Reader..." - Miss Manners
"Is" is the verb for when you don't want a verb.
"It was the BEST butter, the March Hare meekly replied." - Lewis Carroll
"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards," the Queen remarked. - Lewis Carroll
"Kernal" is not a word. The correct spelling is "kernel".
"To be, or not to be." - Hamlet "Do-bee-do-bee-do." - Sinatra
"Truth" never set anyone free. It is only *doubt* which will bring mental emancipation. - Anton LaVey
"Wayne Newton is," he says, "an example of what America can be."
"Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. (from Jaberwocky) - Lewis Carroll
... we tested ours against the other leading brand... - TV Commercial
1. Resolved by this Council, that we build a new Jail. 2. Resolved, that the new Jail be built out of the material of the old Jail. 3. Resolved, that the old Jail be used until the new Jail is finished. - passed by the Board of Councilmen in Canton, Mississippi
186,000 mps: It's not just a good idea -- It's the law.
1955-1975: 36 Elvis movies. 1975-1989: nothing. - Tom Neff
43rd Law of Computing: Anything that can go wr...Seek Error reading Drive C: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?
>From listening comes wisdom and from speaking repentance.
>From uucp Mon Dec 3 21:05:46 1979
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
A Puritan is someone who is deathly afraid that someone somewhere is having fun
A Smith and Wesson beats four aces.
A bachelor is a guy who is footloose and fiancee free.
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. - Mark Twain, American Writer (1835-1910)
A beautiful woman is the hell of the soul, the purgatory of the purse, and the paradise of the eyes. - Fontenelle
A beautiful woman will enrich your life soon.
A big mac, french fries and a large coke!
A billion here, a billion there -- pretty soon it adds up to real money! - Everett Dirkson
A bird in the bush usually has a friend in there with him.
A bird in the hand can be messy.
A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.
A bird in the hand makes it awfully hard to blow your nose.
A book may be compared to the life of your neighbor. If it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early. - H. Brooke
A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed.
A bureaucrat is a politician with tenure.
A chicken is an egg's way of producing more eggs.
A child of 5 could understand this! Fetch me a child of 5.
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. - Bill Vaughan
A city where wise guys peddle gold bricks to each other and Truth, crushed down to earth, rises again as phoney as a glass eye. - Ben Hecht (1894-1964) Of New York, in the film, Nothing Sacred
A clash of doctrine is not a disaster -- it is an opportunity.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read. - Mark Twain
A clean, neat, and orderly work place is a sure sign of a sick mind.
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. - Fred Allen
A company is judged by the president it keeps. - James Hulbert (1942- )
A company is known by the men it keeps.
A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. - Arthur Block
A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles. - Will Rogers
A conservative is one who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
A day without sunshine is like night.
A dead man cannot bite.
A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch. - Hermione Gingold, actress-comedienne (1897-1987)
A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions. - Wilson Mizner
A fool and his honey are soon parted.
A fool and your money are soon partners.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
A friend in need is a pest indeed.
A generation which ignores history has no past -- and no future.
A gift of flour will soon be made to you.
A gift of flower will soon be made to you.
A girl's best friend is her mutter.
A gleekzorp without a tornpee is like a quop without a fertsneet.
A good bargain is a pick-purse. - George Herbert (1593-1633) Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
A good memory does not equal pale ink.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. - G. K. Chesterton
A good reputation is more valuable than money. - Puvlilius Syrus, Senentiae
A government is the only vessel known to leak from the top.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. - William James
A guy has to get fresh once in a while so the girl doesn't lose her confidence.
A half moon is better than no moon at all.
A hammer sometimes misses its mark -- a bouquet never.
A handful of friends is worth more than a wagon of gold.
A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
A harp is a nude piano.
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
A hermit is a deserter from the army of humanity
A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!
A hospital is no place to be sick. - Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant turned famous movie producer
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. - Frank Capra
A hungry man is not a free man. - Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965), Speech, Kasson, Minn., 6 September 1952
A hungry stomach cannot hear. - Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695), Fables, 1678-1679
A hypothetical paradox: What would happen in a battle between an Enterprise security team, who always get killed soon after appearing, and a squad of Imperial Stormtroopers, who can't hit the broad side of a planet? - Tom Galloway
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. - Robert Frost
A king's castle is his home.
A knowledge of Sanskrit is of little use to a man trapped in a sewer. - Tom Weller
A lack of leadership is no substitute for inaction.
A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way. - Donald O. Hebb
A large dog will have a surprising effect on your life.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. - Jane Austin
A lecture is where the notes of the professor become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either one. - anon
A liberal is someone too poor to be a capitalist and too rich to be a communist
A lie in time saves nine.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth. - George Bernard Shaw
A light wife doth make a heavy husband.
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
A little Madness in the Spring, Is wholesome even for the King. - Emily Dickinson
A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never.
A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B. - Fats Domino
A man came into the office one day and said he was a sailor. We cured him of that. - Mark Twain, on his days as a doctor's apprentice in California
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. - Arthur Schoperhauer
A man cannot be in two places at once, unless he is a bird.
A man forgives only when he is in the wrong.
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares. - Elbert Hubbard
A man lives by believing in something, not by debating and arguing about many things. - Thomas Carlyle
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him. - George Bernard Shaw
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. - Michelangelo
A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!", "However," replied the Universe, "the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation." - Stephen Crane
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. - Francis Bacon
A man who knows that he is a fool is not a great fool. - Chuang Tzu
A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society. - Frederick the Great.
A man who turns green has eschewed protein.
A man with 3 buttocks.
A man with a clear conscience does not tremble at a midnight knock on his gate. - Chinese Proverb
A man with one watch knows what time it is--with two watches he is never sure.
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package.
A man's best friend is his dogma.
A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. - Aristophanes
A man's house is his hassle.
A man, a plan, a canal. Suez!
A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems.
A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
A misguided platypus will lay its eggs in your shorts.
A moose once bit my sister.
A motion to adjourn is always in order.
A mouse is an elephant built by the Japanese.
A muth once bit my sister.
A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners. - Olaf Stapledon
A noble choice, but first ...
A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world. - Edmond & Jules Goncourt
A pat on the back is only a few inches from a kick in the pants.
A patient hearer is a sure speaker. - George Savile, Marquess of Halifax (1633-1695), Political, Moral and Miscellaneous Reflections, 1750
A penny saved is ridiculous.
A plausible impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. - Aristotle, Poetics
A plucked goose does not lay golden eggs.
A private sin is not so prejudicial in the world as a public indecency.
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
A project not worth doing at all is not worth doing well.
A quart cannot become a gallon. - Malaysian Proverb
A relationship is like a shark. It has to keep moving forward or it dies.
A rolling disk gathers no MOS.
A rolling stone gathers momentum.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way. - John Tudor
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for. - John A. Shedd
A shortcut is the longest path between two points.
A sick mind is not necessarily the sign of a clean desk.
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. - Joseph Stalin
A snake lurks in the grass.
A soft drink turneth away company.
A stitch in time saves nine.
A stitch in time would have confused Einstein. - anonymous
A sweater is a garment worn by a child when his mother feels chilly.
A theory is better than its explanation.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
A thing not worth doing isn't worth doing well.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever. - Keats
A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn.
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. - Attributed to Samuel Goldwyn
A violent man will die a violent death.
A visit to a fresh place will bring strange work.
A visit to a strange place will bring fresh work.
A vivid and creative mind characterizes you.
A well--known friend is a treasure.
A wise man can see more from a mountain top than a fool can from the bottom of a well.
A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. - Abraham Lincoln
A wise person makes his own decisions, a weak one obeys public opinion.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
A word to the wise is enough.
A writer must not shift your point of view.
A year spent in Artificial Intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes.
APL is a write only language: You can write programs in it; but try and read them!
Abolish first marriages!
Abortion is a miscarriage of justice.
About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.
About the only thing on a farm that has an easy time is the dog.
Above all else -- sky.
Above all things, reverence yourself.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Abstain from beans.
Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder.
Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. - Al Capp
Academy: A modern school where football is taught.
Accident: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.
According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.
Accuracy: The vice of being right.
Acting is an art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.
Actors will happen in the best--regulated families.
Adding manpower to a late software project only makes it later.
Admiration: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Adolescence is that period of time between puberty and adultery.
Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures for brainwashing. - Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media
Adult: One old enough to know better.
Advancement in position.
Advertising agency: eighty-five percent confusion and fifteen percent commission. - Fred Allen (1894-1956)
Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century. - Marshall McLuhan, in Advertising Age, 1968
Advertising is to art what the banjo is to an orchestra. - Martin Mull
Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all there is. - Fairfax M. Cone (1903-1977), Foote, Cone & Belding, Quoted in the Christian Science Monitor, 20 March 1963
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money out of it. - Stephen Leacock (1869-1944)
Advice is a dangerous gift; be cautious about giving and receiving it.
After a number of decimal places, nobody gives a damn.
After all is said and done, usually more is said than done.
After they got rid of capital punishment, they had to hang twice as many people as before.
Afternoon: That part of the day we spend worrying about how we wasted the morning.
Aging is bad, but consider the alternative. - Anonymous
Agree or disagree with the following statement: There are two kinds of people in this world -- Those that seperate people into two groups, and those that don't. - Robert Benchley
Ahah!
Ahead warp factor one, Mr. Sulu.
Air pollution is a mist demeanor.
Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
Aleph sub alpha is the alpha'th aleph.
Alia jacta est. (The die is cast.) - Julius Caesar after crossing the Rubicon
Alimony and bribes will engage a large share of your wealth.
All I ask for is an opportunity to prove that money doesn't buy happiness.
All Marxists, basically, are reactionaries, yearning for the Oriental despotisms of pre-Hellenic times, the neolithic culture that preceded the rise of self-consciousness and egoism. - Robert Anton Wilson, writing as "Justin Case".
All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. - George Orwell
All art is but imitation of nature.
All art is quite useless.
All cats are gray in the dark. - Benjamin Franklin
All diagnostics are fatal.
All echelons of the staff will coordinate the configuration of the plans with the requisite tailoring of the overview in order to expedite the functional objective. - Capt. Scarrett Adams, USN
All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare. - Benedict Spinoza
All generalizations are bad. - R.H. Grenier
All great discoveries are made by accident.
All great ideas are controversial, or have been at one time.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here. - Dante Alighieri
All in all it's just another brick in the wall...
All is well that ends well.
All laws are basically false.
All machines are amplifiers.
All men know the utility of useful things, but not know the utility of futility
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. - Ernest Hemingway
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. - Leonardo da Vinci
All serious daring starts from within. - Eudora Welty
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
All the troubles you have will pass away very quickly.
All the world's a stage and the people on it are poorly rehearsed.
All things are possible except skiing thru a revolving door.
All trends towards Chaos.
All true wisdom is found on T--shirts.
All work and no play, will make you a manager.
All's well that ends.
All's well that ends.
Also, avoid awkward or affected alliteration.
Always acknowledge a fault frankly. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you opportunity to make more.
Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it. - Irene Peter
Always cut the cards.
Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain
Always draw your curves, then plot the data.
Always pick on the correct idiom.
Always remember it is better to give than to receive. Besides, you don't have to write thank--you notes.
Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else.
Always tell a woman she's beautiful, especially if she isn't.
Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
Always try to exhort others to look upon you favorably.
Always yield to temptation, for it may not pass your way again.
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. - Charlie McCarthy
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
America! the land of the Chrysler 440 cubic inch engine!
America's best buy for a nickel is a telephone call to the right man.
Among the lucky, you are the chosen one.
An American's a person who isn't afraid to criticize the President -- but is always polite to traffic cops.
An Irish bull is always pregnant. - Professor John Pentland Mahaffey
An Irishman is never at peace except when he's fighting.
An Irishman will die before letting himself be buried outside of Ireland.
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
An aphorism is never exactly truthful. It is either half-truth or a truth and a half. - Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Spruche and Widerspruche
An artist should be fit for the best society and kept out of it.
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. - John Buchan
An atom blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.
An authority is somebody who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.
An egotist is a person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce
An egotist thinks he's in the groove when he's in a rut.
An elephant is a mouse built to Mil-spec.
An empty bus travels fast. - Tom Weller
An engineer is someone who does list processing in Fortran.
An honest God is the noblest work of man.
An honest politician is one who, when bought, stays bought.
An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.
An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
An idle mind is worth two in the bush.
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys.
Anarchy is against the law.
Anchovies? You've got the wrong man! I spell my name DANGER! (click)
And I alone am returned to wag the tail.
And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.
And here's another clue for you all: The walrus was Paul.
And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the bible were used to beat plowshares into swords... - Alan Watts
And now, for something completely different. - Monty Python
And so it goes. - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
And that, my lord, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped. - Monty Python
And there's hamburger all over the highway in Mystic, Connecticut.
And they're off!
And tomorrow will be like today, only more so.
Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.
Antelope freeway--1/4 mile.
Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it, get a larger hammer.
Antonym: The opposite of the word you're trying to think of.
Any IC protected by a fast acting fuse will protect the fuse by blowing first.
Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an Art. - H. L. Mencken
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it. - Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
Any given program: Once running, is obsolete.
Any given program: Will expand to fill all available resources.
Any government that's strong enough to give the people everything they want is a government that's strong enough to take it away.
Any man who hates dogs and children can't be all bad. - W.C. Fields
Any shrine is better than self--worship.
Any sufficiently advanced technology would be indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clark
Any system that depends on reliability is unreliable.
Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Anyone can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.
Anyone want a burger? It has cheese on both sides!
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human.
Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. - Samuel Goldwyn
Anything can be made to work if you fiddle with it long enough.
Anything free is worth what you pay for it.
Anything is possible, unless it's not.
Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. - G. K. Chesterton
Anything worth having is worth cheating for. - W.C. Fields
Appearances often are deceiving.
April hath put a spirit of youth in every thing. - William Shakespeare
Archaeologists take sedimental journeys.
Archimedes had no principles!
Are we having fun yet? - J. Paul Grayson
Are we not men?
Are you a turtle?
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. - Pablo Picasso
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. - G.K.Chesterton
As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing.
As a goat herd learns his trade by goat, so a writer learns his trade by wrote.
As a rule software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications. - Dave Parnas, Communications of the ACM (33, 6 June 1990 p.636)
As far as criticism is concerned, we don't resent that unless it is absolutely biased, as it is in most cases. - John Vorster (1915- ), Quoted in the Observer, 9 November 1969
As goatherd learns his trade by goat, so writer learns his trade by wrote.
As in other things, so in men, not the seller but the buyer determines the price. - Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), Leviathon, 1651
As long as the answer is right, who cares if the question is wrong?
As of next week, passwords will be entered in Morse code.
As the trials of life continue to take their toll, remember that there is always a future in Computer Maintenance.
As we anarchists say: "There's no government like no government." - D'Arcy J.M. Cain (darcy@druid)
As well look for a needle in a bottle of hay.
Assembly language is also available. - Jordan Henderson (jordan@hackercorp.com)
Astronauts are out to launch.
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
Auntie Em: Hate you, hate Kansas, taking the dog. - Dorothy
Auribus teneo lupum. (I hold a wolf by the ears.)
Autocracy is based on the theorem that one man is smarter than many.
Avert misunderstanding by calm, poise, and balance.
Avoid GOTOs completely if you can keep the program readable.
Avoid colloquial stuff.
Avoid commas, that are not necessary.
Avoid overuse of 'quotation "marks."'
Avoid run--on sentences they are hard to read.
Avoid shifting into reverse while your car is moving; especially while moving at a high rate of speed. - 1988 Honda Civic CRX Owner's Manual
Avoid temporary variables.
Avoid the Fortran arithmetic IF.
Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
Avoid unnecessary branches.
BASIC is to computer programming as "qwerty" is to typing.
Baby carriage bumper sticker: "POO-POO HAPPENS!'' - Bob Irwin (birwin@ficc.ferranti.com)
Baby... - The Late Elvis Presley.
Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges! - Eli Wallach (The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly)
Badness comes in waves.
Baloney is flattery so thick that it can not be true and blarney is flattery so thin that we like it. - Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Bare words are no good bargain. - John Clarke (1609-1676), Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina, 1639
Barometer: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
Be alert, the world needs more lerts.
Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.
Be braver. You cannot cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Be careful what you ask for -- because you just might get it. - Czech Proverb
Be careful what you wish for; you might get it.
Be careful when a loop exits to the same place from side and bottom.
Be careful! Is it classified?
Be careful, the last person using this keyboard had a terminal disease.
Be cautious in your daily affairs.
Be cheerful while you are alive.
Be happy with the real pleasures in life.
Be kind to your inferiors, if you can find any.
Be like a postage stamp -- stick to one thing until you get there. - Josh Billings
Be moderate where pleasure is concerned, avoid fatigue.
Be reasonable. Do it my way. - Unknown
Be security conscious -- National defense is at stake.
Be seeing you.
Be self-reliant and your success is assured.
Be sure to treat your assumptions as though they are reality.
Be valiant, but not too venturous. Let thy attire be comely, but not costly.
Beam me up, Scotty!
Beauty and harmony are as necessary to you as the very breath of life.
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
Beauty seldom recommends one to another.
Because the water is still, you must not think there is no crocodile there. - Malaysian Proverb
Because the wine remembers.
Bedfellows make strange politicians.
Been Transferred Lately?
Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more.
Before engaging in a battle of wits, make sure your opponent is armed. - East Texas Proverb
Before you trust a man, eat a peck of salt with him. - Anonymous, derived from Cicero
Beggars should be no choosers.
Begin well, end badly; begin badly, end worse.
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Behind every successful man you'll find a woman with nothing to wear.
Behind your back, your colleagues are talking about Jeckyl and Hyde.
Being natural is simply a pose.
Better attitudes through chemistry. - Bruce
Better late than never.
Better living a beggar than buried an emperor.
Better to kill time than have it kill you. - karl
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
Better to send ten ambulances when they are not needed than one when it is.
Better to use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.
Between two evils, always pick the one you never tried before.
Beware of Bigfoot!
Beware of Dogmas. - Unknown
Beware of Geeks bearing grifts.
Beware of a dark--haired man with a loud tie.
Beware of a tall dark man with a spoon up his nose.
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. - Thoreau
Beware of friends who are false and deceitful.
Beware of geeks bearing graft.
Beware of low flying butterflies.
Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question.
Beware the legless man who teaches running.
Beware the new TTY code!
Beware the thirty--first of November.
Bidet? Try washing your whole body. - anon
Big book, big bore.
Bigamy is having one spouse too many. Monogamy is the same.
Biggest security gap -- an open mouth.
Bimbos should be obscene and not heard.
Biology grows on you.
Biz is better.
Blackberries are red when they are green.
Blah.
Blame Saint Andreas -- it's all his fault.
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inhibit the earth.
Blessed are they that run around in circles, for they shall be known as wheels.
Bluegrass is not just a weed.
Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices. - George Bernard Shaw
Boycott Clockwork Peach.
Brain fried -- Core dumped
Brain: The apparatus with which we think that we think.
Breeding rabbits is a hare raising experience.
Buffalo is not just the name of an animal.
Bugs are Sons of Glitches!
Build a system even a fool can use, and only a fool will use it.
Bureaucratic organization is like a septic tank: the big chunks rise to the top
Bus error -- Core dumped
Business will be better or worse. - Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)
Business will be either better or worse. - Calvin Coolidge
But Captain--the engines can't take this much longer!
But I don't like Spam!!!!
But in the way of bargains, mark you me, I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair. - Shakespeare (1564-1616), Henry IV, Part I, 1597-1598
But this is my sister's bike!
But you shall not escape my iambics.
Buy low, sell high.
Buy! Amdahl Stock to go up 100 points next week.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
By following the good, you learn to be good.
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be far apart.
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
By the yard, life is hard. By the inch, it's a cinch.
Bye Kids! - Ed Barbara
Bye's First Law of Model Railroading: Anytime you wish to demonstrate something, the number of faults encountered is proportional to the number of viewers.
C is the assembly language of Tcl. - Karl Lehenbauer (karl@hackercorp.com)
CChheecckk yyoouurr dduupplleexx sswwiittcchh..
COBOL programmers understand why women hate periods.
COBOL programs are an exercise in Artificial Inelegance.
COKE IS IT!
Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
California is a fine place to live -- if you happen to be an orange. - Fred Allen
Californians are not without their faults.
Call upon a man of business during hours of business only to transact your business. Then go about your business and give him time to attend to his business. - Anonymous
Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.
Can you read a punched card, looking at the holes?
Can you whistle 300 baud?
Can you whistle a telephone number?
Can't open /usr/lib/fortunes.
Canada: a few acres of snow. - Voltaire
Cannot fork -- try again.
Cannot open /usr/games/lib/fortunes.
Captain's Log, star date 21:34.5.
Carelessly planned projects take three times longer to complete than expected; carefully planned projects only twice as long.
Carpe Diem.
Carpenters are just plane folks.
Celebrate Hannibal Day today. Take an elephant to lunch.
Celibacy is NOT hereditary.
Celibacy is hereditary.
Center meeting at 4 pm in 2C--543.
Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Charity begins at home.
Charity: a thing that begins at home and usually stays there.
Charlie was a chemist, but Charlie is no more. What Charlie thought was H2O was H2SO4.
Charm is a way of getting a "yes" without having asked any clear question.
Chaste makes waste.
Chastity is its own punishment.
Cheap things are of no value, valuable things are not cheap.
Check again to make sure it's not loaded.
Cheech! Hey! Cheech! - Chong
Chemistry professors never die, they just fail to react.
Chemistry professors never die, they just smell that way!
Chicken Little was right.
Chicken feed is what most of our nest eggs have turned into.
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
Children have more need of models than of critics.
Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.
Chinese saying: "He who speak with forked tongue, not need chopsticks."
Chown up. Chow down.
Christ died for our sins, so let's not disappoint him.
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. - Jane Addams
Clark Kent is a transvestite.
Classified material requires proper storage.
Cleanliness is next to impossible.
Climate is what you expect. Weather is what you get.
Clones are people two.
Cloning is the sincerest form of flattery.
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you. - Song Lyric
Coastal access, next left.
Cobol programmers are down in the dumps.
Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know -- I've been using it for years. - Talullah Bankhead
Coed dorms promote campus unrest.
Coffee in England is just toasted milk.
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum--I think that I think, therefore I think that I am. - Ambrose Bierce
Cogli l'attimo 'ogli l'attimo.
Collaboration: A literary partnership based on the false assumption that the other fellow can spell.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways.
Committee: A group of men who keep minutes and waste hours. - Anonymous
Committees do harm merely by existing. - Freeman Dyson
Competence always contains the seeds of incompetence.
Compromise: The fine art of making sure that nobody gets what they really want. - Anonymous
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Computer programmers never die, they just get lost in the processing.
Computers Unite! You have nothing to lose but your operators.
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. - Joseph Campbell
Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable.
Computers are useless; they can only give answers. - Picasso
Computers can never replace human stupidity.
Con 'sta pioggia e con 'sto vento chi e' che bssa a 'sto convento?
Concentrate on security.
Confession is good for the soul, but bad for your career.
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Confucious say too damn much!
Confucious say: "I have no time for monks resisting the carnival"
Confusion is always increasing in society.
Confusticate and bebother these dwarves!
Congratulations! The pressure will stop soon.
Congratulations! You are the 16,777,216th user to login to our system.
Congratulations! You are the one--millionth user to log into our system.
Congratulations! You have now used up another 250 hours of CPU time.
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking.
Consider your reputation. Try changing your name and moving to a new town.
Continental Life. Why do you ask?
Convention is the ruler of all.
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the soul of genius.
Conversation: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
Counting in binary is just like counting in decimal if you are all thumbs.
Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal if you don't use your thumbs.
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Courage is grace under pressure.
Courage is your greatest present need.
Coward: One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Crazee Edeee, his prices are INSANE!!!
Create the impression that you have already reached your level of incompetence.
Create your own opportunity. Blackmail a senior executive.
Creditors have much better memories than debtors.
Credo, quia absurdum est. [I believe, because it is absurd.] - Tertullian, Roman lawyer, theologian and misogynist; man of questionable judgement
Crime wouldn't pay, if the government ran it.
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?
Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
Cure the disease and kill the patient.
Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought her back.
Curses! May you be forced to grep the termcap of an unclean yacc while a herd of wild rogue emacs fsck your troff and vgrind your pathalias!
Cwm fjord--bank glyphs vext quiz.
Cynic: One who looks through rose-colored glasses with a jaundiced eye.
DAMN IT, I GOTTA GET OUTTA HERE!
DO NOT, repeat, DO NOT blow the hatch! Roger....hatch blown! - MAROONED
Dad, have you seen Blip? I can't find him anywhere!
Daisies of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains.
Danger Will Robinson! Danger! Danger! Danger! Danger!
Darth Vadar! Only you would be so bold.
Darth Vader sleeps with a Teddywookie.
Dating is like Geometry: If you've got the curves, I've got the angles.
Dawn: The time when men of reason go to bed.
De--accession euphemisms.
Dear Teacher: Please excuse my son Joseph's absence on Friday as it was Ash Wednesday. - Signed, My Mother
Death has been proven to be 99 per cent fatal in laboratory rats.
Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down.
Death: to stop sinning suddenly.
Decaffeinated coffee? Kinda like kissing your sister. - Bob Irwin (birwin@ficc.ferranti.com)
Decisions terminate panic.
Deflector shields just came on, Captain.
Deliberation: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
Deliver yesterday, code today, think tomorrow.
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. - Senator Soaper
Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. - H. L. Mencken
Democracy is based on the theorem that many men are smarter than one.
Depart in pieces.... i.e., Split.
Department meeting in 3 minutes.
Deprive a mirror of its silver and even the Czar won't see his face.
Details 20 minutes from now on Action Central News, kids.
Diagnostics can best be understood in the context of the source code.
Did Mt. St. Helens make Seattle Wash. ?
Digital circuits are made from analog parts.
Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.
Direct action produces direct reaction.
Disclose classified information only when a NEED TO KNOW exists.
Disco is to music what Etch-A-Sketch is to art.
Disease can be cured; fate is incurable.
Disguise your feelings when you put your relatives on the plane for home.
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
Disk crisis, please clean up!
Disks travel in packs.
Do not be led astray onto the path of virtue.
Do not be overly suspicious where it is not warranted.
Do not believe everything you hear or anything you say.
Do not believe in miracles--rely on them.
Do not clog intellect's sluices with bits of knowledge of questionable uses.
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
Do not drink coffee in the morning or it will keep you awake until noon.
Do not kiss an elephant on the lips today.
Do not learn the tricks of the trade--learn the trade.
Do not lend money to a fiend.
Do not merely believe in miracles, rely on them.
Do not put statements in the negative form.
Do not read this fortune under penalty of law. (Penal Code sec. 2.3.2 (II.a))
Do not sleep in a eucalyptus tree tonight.
Do not speak about Time, until you have spoken to him.
Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
Do not tell big lies. Small ones can be just as effective.
Do not underestimate the power of the Force.
Do not worry about whether or not the sun will shine. Just be prepared to enjoy it.
Do the joke. Get the laugh. Move on. - Michael O'Donoughue
Do unto others before they undo you.
Do you have a job?
Do you have lysdexia?
Do you know Montana?
Do you know that doing your best is not good enough? First you must know what to do. - manufacturing-quality theorist W. Edwards Deming
Do you know what floccinaucinihilipilification means?
Do you know, considering the market, there is more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of. - Robert Frost (1874-1963), New Hampshire, 1923
Do you really think Iranian terrorist would've taken Americans hostage, if Ronald Regan were president? - Roger Waters, Radio KAOS
Do you really think third-rate military dictators would laugh at America and burn our flag in contempt, if Ronald Regan were president? - Roger Waters, Radio KAOS
Doc, note, I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod.
Documentation is the castor oil of programming...
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
Does your computer talk to you?
Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does. - Steuart Henderson Britt (1907-1979), Quoted in the New York Herald Tribune, 30 October 1956
Doing gets it done.
Domestic happiness and faithful friends.
Don's Axiom: When all else fails, read the instructions.
Don't I know you?
Don't attitudenize. - Samuel Johnson
Don't be overly suspicious where it's not warranted.
Don't believe anything you read and only half of what you see. - Will Rogers
Don't believe everything you hear or anything you say.
Don't blame me! I was dancing Friday night!
Don't comment bad code -- rewrite it.
Don't compare floating point numbers solely for equality.
Don't crush that dwarf; hand me the pliers.
Don't despair -- your ideal lover is waiting for you around the corner.
Don't diddle code to make it faster -- find a better algorithm.
Don't eat yellow snow.
Don't ever slam a door; you might want to go back.
Don't everyone thank me at once.
Don't feed the bats tonight.
Don't force it, use a bigger hammer.
Don't gamble with security.
Don't get married. Find a woman you hate and buy her a house. - anon
Don't get stuck in a closet -- wear yourself out.
Don't get yourself involved with persons or situations that can't bear inspection.
Don't give up, I'm proud of who you are.
Don't go surfing in South Dakota for a while.
Don't guess -- check your security regulations.
Don't hate yourself in the morning -- sleep till noon.
Don't hit the keys so hard, it hurts.
Don't keep doing what doesn't work.
Don't let your mouth run faster than your brain.
Don't look back, the lemmings are gaining on you.
Don't look now, but the man in the moon is laughing at you.
Don't look now, but there is a multi--legged creature on your shoulder
Don't make a big deal out of everything; just deal with everything.
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper.
Don't overuse exclamation marks!!!
Don't patch bad code-- rewrite it.
Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
Don't quit now, we might just as well lock the door and throw away the key.
Don't read everything you believe.
Don't shoot the pianist.
Don't speak about Time, until you have spoken to him.
Don't stop at one bug.
Don't sweat it -- it's only ones and zeros.
Don't take life too seriously; you won't get out of it alive.
Don't talk to me about appealing to the public. I am done with the public, for the present anyway. The public reads the headlines and that is all. The story itself is fair and shows the facts. That would be all right if the public read the facts. But it does not. It reads the headlines and listens to the demagogues and that's the stuff public opinion is made of. - J.P. Morgan (1837-1913)
Don't tell any big lies today. Small ones can be just as effective.
Don't tell me what you dream'd last night for I've been reading Freud.
Don't try to have the last word. You might get it.
Don't use contractions in formal writing.
Don't use no double negatives.
Don't vote--it only encourages them!
Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. - Howard Aiken
Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it.
Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.
Don't worry, if everything worked right you'd be out of a job.
Don't wrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.
Double!
Down with categorical imperatives!
Down with ignurance!
Draw from your fine command of language and say nothing.
Draw your salary before spending it.
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
Drive defensively, buy a tank.
Drop that pickle!
Duck who fly upside down have quack up.
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... - Carl Zwanzig
Due to a shortage of devoted followers, the production of great leaders has been discontinued.
Duty is what one expects from others.
EVIL GENIUS: Oh Benson, dear Benson . . . you are so mercifully free of the ravages of intelligence. - Time Bandits
Each of us bears his own Hell.
Each problem solved introduces a new unsolved problem.
Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow you diet.
Economics is called the dismal science, but that's just because most economists are dismal scientists.
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
Economy makes men independent.
Editing is a rewording activity.
Education helps earning capacity. Ask any college professor.
Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. - Malcom S. Forbes
Eeeney-Meeney, Chili-beanie, the spirits are about to speak! - Bullwinkle
Eh-buh-dee, Eh-buh-dee, Ehhh -- Thhhhthat's all, Folks! - Porky Pig
Ekkie ekkie phatang zooboing!
Electricity travels a foot in a nanosecond. - Commodore Grace Murray Hopper, USN
Eliminate government waste no matter how much it costs.
Elliptic paraboloids for sale.
Eloquence is logic on fire.
Enjoy your life; be pleasant and gay, like the birds in May.
Enough research will tend to support your theory.
Enter your personal identification number.
Entropy isn't what it used to be.
Envy is a pain of mind that successful men cause their neighbors.
Epigrams are macros, since they are executed at read time.
Equal bytes for women.
Errare umanum est.
Eschew Obfuscation. (Look THAT up in your Funk and Wagnalls!) - Anonymous
Eschew clever rules. - Jon Condon, Bell Labs
Eschew dialect, irregardless.
Eschew obfuscation.
Established technology tends to persist in spite of new technology.
Eureka!
Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.
Even a cabbage may look at a king.
Even a hawk is an eagle among crows.
Even a poor tailor is entitled to some happiness! - from Fiddler On The Roof
Even a prostitute can't find work in a town full of nymphomaniacs. - Seymour Merrin
Even a small star shines in the darkness. - Danish Proverb
Even if the story isn't true, it does have a grain of sense and instruction to it, and it's entertaining as well, so it's worth the telling.
Even if you persuade me, you won't persuade me.
Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. - Will Rogers
Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess.
Even the boldest zebra fears the hungry lion.
Even the smallest candle burns brighter in the dark.
Even though one keeps his nose to the grindstone, it does not mean that he is good for anything besides cutting bread with his nose.
Ever help the person behind the counter with their terminal/computer?
Ever shoot an elephant in your pajamas?
Everthing human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. - Mark Twain, American Writer (1835-1910)
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso
Every cloud engenders not a storm.
Every creature has within him the wild, uncontrollable urge to PUNT.
Every little picofarad has a nanohenry all its own.
Every man has his price. Every price has its man.
Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
Every one lives by selling something. - Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Across the Plains, 1892
Every opportunity we have to run our R&D scientists and engineers against our customers, we do it. - George Heilmeier, Texas Instruments Inc., Dallas
Every purchase has its price.
Every silver lining has a cloud around it.
Every solution breeds new problems.
Every time I lose weight, it finds me again!
Every why hath a wherefore.
Every year a few research results pay the freight for all the rest. - Robert A. Frosch, General Motors
Everybody got someone they call home. - Roger Waters, Radio KAOS
Everybody need reverse polarity - Rush, Signals
Everybody needs a little love sometime; stop hacking and fall in love!
Everybody ought to have a friend.
Everyone complains of his memory, no one of his judgment.
Everyone has a scheme that will not work.
Everyone hates me because I'm paranoid.
Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.
Everyone is enthusiastic about your work.
Everyone is entitled to my opinion.
Everyone ought to have a maid.
Everyone stopping by with unsought advice will see your mistake.
Everything bows to success, even grammar.
Everything goes wrong at once.
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. - Mark Twain, American Writer (1835-1910)
Everything put together, falls apart, sooner or later.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955), Quoted in Reader's Digest, October 1977
Everything should be transparent to the user.
Everything takes longer than you think it will.
Everything that can be said can be said clearly. - Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. - Neils Bohr
Everything you know is wrong!
Everything's coming up roses.
Excreto ergo sum.
Excuse me for not answering your letter, but I've been so busy not answering letters that I couldn't get around to not answering yours in time. - Groucho Marx
Excuse me, Worker, I'll just be a nanosecond. - a computer, from Firesign Theater's "I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus"
Executive ability is prominent in your make-up.
Exercise caution in your daily affairs.
Expansion means complexity, and complexity decays.
Expect a letter from a friend who will ask a favor of you.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again. - F. P. Jones
Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.
Experience varies directly with equipment ruined.
Experiments should be reproducible. They should all fail in the same way.
Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so.
Express an opinion, but send advice by freight.
External Security:
Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.
Extreme good--naturedness borders on weakness of character. Avoid it.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.
Falling hurts least those who fly low. - Chinese Proverb
Familiarity breeds attempt.
Familiarity breeds.
Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect. - Keats
Fancy gizmos don't work.
Far duller than a serpent's tooth it is to spend a quiet youth.
Fast ship? You mean you've never heard of the Millennium Falcon?
Fasten your seat belt.
Feces Occurs.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. - George Washington (1732-1799), Letter to Robert Howe, 17 August 1779
Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be. - Charles Brower
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation or creed. - Bertrand Russell
Fidelity: A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
Finagle's First Law: If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
Finagle's Fourth Law: Once a job is messed up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
Finagle's Law: The perversity of the universe tends toward a maximum.
Firmness of delivery dates is inversely proportional to tightness of schedule.
First Law of Advice: The correct advice is to give the advice that is desired.
First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack. - George Carrette [1990]
Flee at once, all is discovered.
Flying is the art of throwing yourself at the ground... and missing!
Follow the good side right to the fire, but not into it.
Football combines the worst elements of America: Mass violence punctuated by committee meetings. - Author Unknown
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable. - Tom Landry
For a good time, call (408) 555--1212.
For a holy stint, a moth of the cloth gave up his woolens for lint.
For adult education nothing beats children.
For best results, squeeze from the bottom of the tube.
For best results: flip open cap, fill dishwasher dispenser cup(s)... - Palmolive liquid automatic dishwashing detergent bottle
For courage mounteth with occasion.
For every vision there is an equal and opposite revision.
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
For people who like that kind of book, that is the kind of book they will like.
For thee the wonder working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
For those of you who think life is a joke, just think of the punchline.
For your penance, say five Hail Marys and one loud BLAH!
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
Fort Wayne is not the headquarters of F troop.
Fortunately... no one's in control. - Willie Nelson
Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. - Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Of Delays, 1625
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
Frankly, Scarlett, I don't give a damn. - Rhett Butler
Frankly, my dear Charlotte, I don't give a damn.
Free at last, free at last, Great God Almighty, I am free at last. - Martin Luther King
Free the Indianapolis 500.
Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. War is peace.
Freedom of the press belongs to those that own one. - A.J. Liebling
Friction is a drag.
Friends come and go... enemies accumulate.
Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.
Friendship is like wax fruit. It's great until you try to put the bite on it. - B.C. (Johnny Hart)
Frisbee players are ultimate lovers.
From an operating system research point of view, Unix is -- if not dead -- certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking beyond it. - Dennis Ritchie, coinventor of Unix, Usenix keynote speech from Summer 1990
From listening comes wisdom and from speaking repentance.
From now on we shall offer police jobs to qualified women regardless of sex. - A New Jersey town's affirmative action statement
Fudd's First Law: "If you push something hard enough, it will fall over."
Function reject.
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. - H. H. Williams
Future looks spotty. You will spill soup in late evening.
Fuzzy project goals avoid the embarrassment of estimating the costs.
GALAHAD: Camelot LAUNCELOT: Camelot GAWAIN (to the PAGE): It's only a model. ARTHUR (turning sharply): Shhh!!! - Monty Python
GIVE: Support the helpless victims of computer error.
Gargling twice daily is a good way to see if your neck leaks.
Garlic is to salad what insanity is to art.
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. - Robert Herrick
Generosity and perfection are your everlasting goals.
Genetics explains why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas A. Edison
Genius is ten percent inspiration and fifty percent capital gains.
Genius is the talent of a man who is dead.
Gentlemen, it appears to be unanimous that we cannot agree.
Get off your ASCII.
Get out the Crisco.
Get the test tubes and that scale and get it all outta here - Steely Dan
Getting a date with a girl is a lot like getting a loan from a bank -- to get one, you must first prove that you don't need one. - Brad Kozak
Girl, bathing on Bikini, eyeing boy, finds boy eyeing bikini on bathing girl.
Give a speculator an inch and he'll build a condo.
Give a woman an inch and she'll park a car in it.
Give big space to the festive dog that shall sport in the roadway.
Give him an evasive answer.
Give me a fish and I will eat today. Teach me to fish and I will eat forever.
Give me all your lupins!
Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
Give me librium or give me meth.
Give up.
Give what you have. To someone it may be better than you dare to think. - Longfellow
Give your child mental blocks for Christmas.
Given my druthers, I'd druther not.
Go Hawaiian: Give your gal a lei.
Go Speed Racer, go Speed Racer, go Speed Racer, go!!!
Go away, kid. You bother me.
Go away.
Go placidly amid the noise and waste, and remember what value there may be in owning a piece thereof.
Go soothingly in the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon.
God bless the Holy Trinity.
God does not play dice with the universe. - Einstein
God forbid that I should be out of debt, as if, indeed I could not be trusted. - Rebelais
God gives us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.
God gives us relatives; thank God we can chose our friends.
God made the integers; all else is the work of Man.
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
God must love the common man; He made so many of them.
God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen. - S. Hawking
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. - Reinhold Niebuhr
Going the speed of light is bad for your age.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the universal amphitheater.
Good fortune will find you, providing you gave directions.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. - Fred Brooks, University of North Carolina
Good literature is about Love and War. Trash fiction is about Sex and Violence. - Author Unknown
Good news from afar can bring you a welcome visitor.
Good news. Ten weeks from Friday will be a good day.
Good words are worth much, and cost little. - George Herbert (1593-1633), Jacula Prudentum, 1651
Goodness had nothing to do with it. - Mae West
Goodness is the only investment that never fails. - Henry David Thoreau
Gort, klaatu birada nikto.
Graffiti has changed deface of the nation.
Grammarians dispute--and the case is still before the courts. - Horace, Epistles (Ars Poetica)
Gravity brings me down.
Great googly moogly! - Frank Zappa
Great spirits have always found violent oppression from mediocrities. - Albert Einstein
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent.
Gumperson's Law: The probability of anything happening is inversely proportional to its desirability.
Gun control: Hitting what you aim at. - Author Unknown
Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everyone a publisher. - Marshall McLuhan, Interview in the Washington Post, 1977
HEL-lo. - J. Paul Grayson
Hackers of the world, unite!
Hailing frequencies open, Captain.
Half the lies our opponents tell about us are not true.
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, and the trouble is I don't know which half. - John Wanamaker (1838-1922), Quoted in Ogilvy, Confessions of an Advertising Man, 1963
Happiness adds and multiplies as we divide it with others.
Happiness is just an illusion, filled with sadness and confusion.
Happiness is not a destination. It's the trip. - Anonymous
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of immagination. - Immanuel Kant
Happy feast of the pig.
Hard where? Soft where?
Harp not on that string.
Haste maketh waste.
Have no friends not equal to yourself.
Have the courage to live; anyone can die. - Robert Cody
Have you ever received a Fax or a photocopy of a floppy?
Have you ever shown a novice the "any" key? ... Was it the power switch?
Have you ever talked into an acoustic modem?... Did it answer?
Have you locked your file cabinet?
Have you seen Quasimodo? I had a hunch he was back.
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
Hawaii is a part of the United States that is an island and is right here. - Dan Quayle, while in Hawaii
Hawaii is as American as apple poi.
He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural.
He flung himself on his horse and rode madly off in all directions...
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him.
He hath eaten me out of house and home.
He is considered the most graceful speaker who can say nothing in most words.
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.
He know the precise psychological moment when to say nothing. - Oscar Wilde
He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered.
He taught us drawing, stretching, and fainting in coils.
He that blames would buy. - George Herbert (1593-1633), Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
He that can have patience can have what he will. - Benjamin Franklin
He that cannot abide a bad market, deserves not a good one. - John Ray (1627-1705), English Proverbs, 1678
He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
He that speaks ill of the Mare will buy her. - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), Poor Richard's Almanack, 1742
He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.
He walks as if balancing the family tree on his nose.
He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.