Is there in Truth, no beauty?

The exception that occurred was due not to random failure but to a design error. The exception was detected but was handled inappropriately because the view had been taken that software should be considered correct until it is shown to be at fault. The … opposite view [is] that software should be assumed to be faulty until application of the currently accepted best practice methods can demonstrate that it is correct. This means that critical software must be identified at a very detailed level, that exceptional behavior must be confined, and that a reasonable back-up policy must take software failures into account. -Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1996-

China Clipper calling Alameda.

What’s the difference between an elephant and peanut butter? An elephant won’t stick to the roof of your mouth.

e^(i * Pi) + 1 = 0

That’s us: Grace, Klutz and our little dog Stumble.

“One nation, under Me.” -God-

This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins. -Benjamin Franklin-

“You think it’s hot here?” -God-

The world is chock full of interesting and curious things. The point of courtship and marriage is to secure someone with whom you wish to go hand in hand through this source of entertainment, each making discoveries, and then sharing some and merely reporting others. ‘Why don’t you ever want to talk to me?’ will probably never start a satisfactory marital conversation. ‘Guess what?’ will probably never fail. -Judith Martin-