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• I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a Congress.
  -- John Adams, (1735-1826) in 1776...
• Any one who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
  ...In the midst of all the doubts which we have discussed for 4,000 years in 4,000 ways, the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience....
• Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
  Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• On the other hand, the TCP camp also has a phrase for OSI people.
  There are lots of phrases. My favorite is `nitwit' -- and the rationale is the Internet philosophy has always been you have extremely bright, non-partisan researchers look at a topic, do world-class research, do several competing implementations, have a bake-off, determine what works best, write it down and make that the standard....
• You have a mongrel perception of humor, nothing more
  a multitude of you possess that. This multitude see the comic side of a thousand low-grade and trivial things -- broad incongruities, mainly...
• Pro: Children ask better questions than do adults. "May I have a cookie?
  "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?...
• There are two jazz musicians who are great buddies.
  They hang out and play together for years, virtually inseparable....
• A commercial, and in some respects a social, doubt has been started within the last year or two, whether or not it is right to discuss so openly the security or insecurity of locks.
  Many well-meaning persons suppose that the discussion respecting the means for baffling the supposed safety of locks offers a premium for dishonesty, by showing others how to be dishonest....