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• That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended -- civilizations are built up -- excellent institutions devised
  but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and then it all slides back into misery and ruin....
• Internet n. The mother of all networks. First incarnated beginning in 1969 as the ARPANET, a U.
  S. Department of Defense research testbed. Though it has been widely believed that the goal was to develop a network architecture for military command-and-control that could survive disruptions up to and including nuclear war, this is a myth...
• Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
  Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...
• There seems no plan because it is all plan. -- C. S. Lewi
• Seems this fellow was suffering from terrific headaches, and went to his doctor about it.
  The physician made a number of tests, and informed the man that the only thing for his headaches was castration....
• Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas.
  Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era -- the kind of peak that never comes again....
• Marge: I think there's really something wrong with Santa's Little Helper.
  He was up barking all night, and dug up the back yard worse than ever....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten.
  Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain but there in the sandbox at nursery school....