... Had this been an actual emergency, we would have fled in terror,and you would not have been informed.

I basically like "comments," though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measureof objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, itcomes with a side of maggots. ― Gene Weingarten, Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist

Without coffee he could not work, or at least he could not have worked inthe way he did. In addition to paper and pens, he took with him everywhereas an indispensable article of equipment the coffee machine, which was noless important to him than his table or his white robe. ― Stefan Zweigs, Biography of Balzac

Ocean, n.: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made forman ― who has no gills.

I wish they all could be California girls.

Writing programs needs genius to save the last order or the last millisecond.It is great fun, but it is a young man's game. You start it with greatenthusiasm when you first start programming, but after ten years you get abit bored with it, and then you turn to automatic-programming languages anduse them because they enable you to get to the heart of the problem that youwant to do, instead of having to concentrate on the mechanics of getting theprogram going as fast as you possibly can, which is really nothing more thandoing a sort of crossword puzzle. ― Christopher Strachey, 1962