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• The well-being of a society is enhanced when many of its people question authority.
• The most important question when any new computer architecture is introduced is `So what?
  ' -- someone in comp.arch...
• What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach?
  Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working....
• A college education shows a man how little other people know. -- Haliburto
• cookie jar n. An area of memory set aside for storing cookies.
  Most commonly heard in the Atari ST community; many useful ST programs record their presence by storing a distinctive magic number in the jar....
• cookie jar: n. An area of memory set aside for storing {cookie}s.
  Most commonly heard in the Atari ST community; many useful ST programs record their presence by storing a distinctive {magic number} in the jar....
• Q: How many lawyers does it take to change a light bulb?
  A: Whereas the party of the first part, also known as "Lawyer", and the party of the second part, also known as "Light Bulb", do hereby and forthwith agree to a transaction wherein the party of the second part shall be removed from the current position as a result of failure to perform previously agreed upon duties, i....
• phase of the moon n. Used humorously as a random parameter on which something is said to depend.
  Sometimes implies unreliability of whatever is dependent, or that reliability seems to be dependent on conditions nobody has been able to determine....
• Internet n. The mother of all networks. First incarnated beginning in 1969 as the ARPANET, a U.
  S. Department of Defense research testbed. Though it has been widely believed that the goal was to develop a network architecture for military command-and-control that could survive disruptions up to and including nuclear war, this is a myth...