They say the average taxpayer works more than four months out of every year for the government, which is very disturbing. We’re not even sure the people who work for the government work four months out of every year for the government. -Montana Oil Journal, as cited in November, 1996 Reader’s Digest-
Monthly Archives: June 2017
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♫ Starkle, starkle, little twink. ♪ / Who in the world you are I think. ♪ / The drunker I stand the longer I get. ♪ / I’m not under the alcoflunce of incohol some thinkle peep I am. ♫
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This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a matter of doubt and disquiet. -Blaise Pascal-
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If you happen to be in a certain 2 percent of the population, you have these mental qualities that resonate well with computer, and you naturally gravitate to computer science. It’s just a way of thinking that distinguishes us. Eventually, I learned that I was a computer scientist. -Donald Knuth-
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Failure to plan ahead on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. -Mark Twain-
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Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear. -George W. Bush-
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Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is! -(Alka Seltzer)-
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I never saw a purple cow, I never hope to see one. But if I had my druthers, I’druther see than be one.