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• For a long time then, I reflected on this confusion in the astronomical traditions concerning the derivation of the motions of the universe's spheres.
  I began to be annoyed that the movements of the world machine, created for our sake by the best and most systematic Artisan of all, were not understood with greater certainty by the philosophers, who otherwise examined so precisely the most insignificant trifles of this world....
• We may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her cost and finery upon this small speck of Dirt.
  So, like Travelers into other distant countries, we shall be better able to judge of what's done at home, know how to make a true estimate of, and set its own value upon every thing....
• The following appeared in a memo from the president of Viva-Tech, a manufacturer of high-tech medical equipment.
  "In order to reduce costs, we should close some of our existing small assembly plants and build a large central plant....
• 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....
• Twas the night before Christmas -- the very last one -- When the blazing of lasers destroyed all our fun.
  Just as Santa had lifted off, driving his sleigh, A satellite spotted him making his way....
• The ideal reasoner, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearing
  deduce from it not only the chain of events which led up to it but also the results which would follow from it....
• At about 2500 A.D., humankind discovers a computer problem that *must* be solved.
  The only difficulty is that the problem is NP complete and will take thousands of years even with the latest optical biologic technology available....
• COME FROM n. A semi-mythical language construct dual to the `go to'
  COME FROM <label> would cause the referenced label to act as a sort of trapdoor, so that if the program ever reached it control would quietly and automagically be transferred to the statement following the COME FROM....
• How could they think women a recreation? Or the repetition of bodies of steady interest?
  Only the ignorant or the busy could. That elm of flesh must prove a luxury of prime...