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• Humanity has in the course of time had to endure from the hands of science two great outrages upon its naive self-love.
  The first was when it realized that our earth was not the center of the universe, but only a speck in a world-system of a magnitude hardly conceivable....
• The universe is intractably squiggly. -- Charles Suho
• Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.
  -- button at the Boston Computer Museum...
• Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
  -- Anonymous -- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA...
• Usenet isn't a right. It's a right, a left, and a swift uppercut to the jaw.
  -- Anonymous -- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA...
• Fry: I want to see the edge of the universe. Amy
  Ooh, that sounds cool. Zoidberg: It's funny. You live in the universe by you never do these things 'til someone comes to visit....
• Alone! I'm alone! I'm a lonely, insignificant speck on a has-been planet orbited by a cold, indifferent sun!
  -- Homer Simpson El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Home...
• I'm a lonely, insignificant speck on a has-been planet orbited by a cold, indifferent sun.
  -- Copernicus still has some followers, "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Home...
• You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science.
  I live in a country which is incapable of estimating it. -- Charles Babbage...