Like the grains of sand in an hour glass go the days of our lives.

When visiting nature remember to take only photographs and leave only footprints.

The future will be better tomorrow. -Dan Quayle-

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense. -Edsger W. Dijkstra-

Things aren’t always what they seem. Then it’s possible I’m having a good time.

Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. -Richard W. Hamming-

Stop the world, I want to get off.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. -Barbara Ehrenreich-

Here’s what I mean by normal. If you put a hundred cats and a hundred dogs on an island and come back in a hundred years, you will find that both have reproduced. But the dogs only mate with the dogs and the cats only mate with the cats — not each other. You can call that narrow minded but I call it science. -Cutlass 43k-

When you go to sea it changes you. Men who go to sea have a bond with each other that is not easy to understand. That’s why sailors have always rescued each other, even during time of war. -(fictional) Mikhail Averin, Russian submarine Kursk-