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• Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself. -- Douglas Jerrold
• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid: Douglas Hofstadter Basic Books, 1979 ISBN 0-394-74502-7 This book reads like an intellectual Grand Tour of hacker preoccupations.
  Music, mathematical logic, programming, speculations on the nature of intelligence, biology, and Zen are woven into a brilliant tapestry themed on the concept of encoded self-reference....
• The life of the husbandman,--a life fed by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven.
  -- Douglas Jerrold (1803-1857) -- The Husbandman's Life...
• The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
  -- Abraham Lincol...
• In death a hero, as in life a friend!
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xvii, Line 758...
• The nobleman of the garden. -- Douglas Jerrold (1803-1857) -- The Pineapple
• Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Life of Frederick the Great, Book xvi, Chap. i...
• A book, a friend, a song, a glass, a chaste loving lass.
• The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
  -- Douglas Jerrold (1803-1857) -- Douglas Jerrold's Wi...