Programmer: an organism that turns coffee into software.

Why do Americans choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America?

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. -Albert Einstein-

I once converted meters per second to furlongs per fortnight to make the point about the clumsiness of English units.

Velvet put-downs: He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. -Oscar Wilde-

Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Computers are from Hades.

Velvet put-downs: She is a peacock in everything but beauty. -Oscar Wilde-

Men are not in hell because God is angry with them. They are in wrath and darkness because they have done to the light, which infinitely flows forth from God, as that man does to the light who puts out his own eyes. -William Law-

Velvet put-downs: He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. -Winston Churchill-

Velvet put-downs: He had delusions of adequacy. -Walter Kerr-