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• Nature (reality) is just as absolutist as chess, and her rules (laws) are just as immutable (more so) -- but her rules and their applications are much
  much more complex, and have to be discovered by man....
• only to the extent which -- in chains, in dungeo
  in hidden corners, in the cells of philosophers, in the shops of traders -- some men continued to think, only to that extent was humanity able to survive ....
• Bernard Shaw is an excellent man; he has not an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him either.
  -- Oscar Wilde...
• Quote #85 While clearing out my file cabinet, I uncovered the following, which struck me as relevant to a lot of what goes on in comp.
  isks. Quoted from a paper, 'The Emperor's Old Clothes', by Charles Antony Richard Hoare, published in CACM Feb 1981...
• Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, and die with the consciousness that he has done his best.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 130...
• Like the man who threw a stone at a bitch, but hit his step-mother, on which he exclaimed, "Not so bad!
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- On the Tranquillity of the Mind...
• You who've lost the concept of a right, you who swing in impotent evasiveness between the claim that rights are a gift of God
  a supernatural gift to be taken on faith, or the claim that rights are a gift of society, to be broken at its arbitrary whim -- the source of man's rights is not divine law or congressional law, but the law of identity....
• Tact is the ability to tell a man he has an open mind when he has a hole in his head.