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• Life is complicated, and not for the timid.
• It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to pon you and yours from bad to worse.
• A camel is a horse designed by committee. A brontosaurus is a salamander designed to Mil-Spec.
• Quote #579 Everyone knows that it's not a good idea to have a language designed by a committee.
  Committees yield bad design. But I think the worst danger of committees is that they interfere with redesign....
• A group of the unwilling, composed of the unfit, to do the unnecessary for the unaware in an untidy manner at an untimely moment employing unseemly tactics for the uninformed.
  Ah, give me a chance at that committee and we can really go nowhere fast and get there before most people even know that we left....
• Simple people must have simple mediations, complicated people must have meditations that engage them fully.
  -- Deng Ming-Dao...
• Life is much too complicated in the morning.
• Grandma: Homer, you grew up so handsome. Homer: Some people say I look like Dan Aykroyd.
  I can't believe you're here! Dad always told me you died while I was at the movies....
• 9) "Unearthed Arcana" by Umberto Eco: A huge volume filled with highly obscure information that Eco compiled in monastery libraries that have been sealed up for centuries.
  The plot is so complicated that the publisher has packeged the book with a free set of Cliff's Notes....