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• The Least Perceptive Literary Critic The most important critic in our field of study is Lord Halifax.
  A most individual judge of poetry, he once invited Alexander Pope round to give a public reading of his latest poem....
• The election is this: the Great Communicator against the Great Depressor.
  .. We are going for the gold! -- Vice President George Bush, 1984...
• Long's Notes 1) Always store beer in a dark place.
  2) Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent....
• CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance -- against whom or what does not clearly appea
  everybody, sooner or later, had to go there, and nobody wanted to carry off the entrance....
• They are fools that think that wealth or women or strong drink or even drugs can buy the most in effort out of the soul of a man.
  These things offer pale pleasures compared to that which is greatest of them all, that task which demands from him more than his utmost strength, that absorbs him, bone and sinew and brain and hope and fear and dreams -- and still calls for more....
• People who can most afford to pay rent build equity. -- Perlweig's Second Law
• TMRC and the MIT hacker culture of the early '60s seems to have developed in a milieu that remembered and still used some WWII military slang (see also foobar).
  It seems likely that `kluge' came to MIT via alumni of the many military electronics projects that had been located in Cambridge (many in MIT's venerable Building 20, in which TMRC is also located) during the war....
• American culture is based on the automobile, and any young man of promise is going to own one and want to travel great distances in it.
  Consequently, any young woman of aspiration should expect to spend most of her vacations in a car, probing into unfamiliar corners....
• and we must consider, that since -- unfortunately -- we are forced to live togethe
  he most important thing for us to remember is that the only way in which we can have any law at all is to have as little of it as possible....