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• So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Poetry, a Rhapsody...
• On or about October 19, 1745 a man named Johnathan Swif
  or a spelling near unto this, died, or is said to have died, since the vital signs, the majority of them at least, are alleged not to have been present....
• Hobbes clearly proves that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Poetry, a Rhapsody...
• Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Poetry, a Rhapsody...
• Kodos: What? Are you still here? I'm afraid we'll have to dispose of you.
  .. [pushes a button] [out of somewhere comes a cannon, which reveals a smaller cannon, which reveals an even smaller one, from which emerges a tube, spraying Homer] Home...
• There is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.
  Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "Gulliver's Travel...
• Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub-systems and so on ad infinitum -- which is why we're always starting over.
  -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982...