Autocommit Mon Nov 25 19:14:02 NZDT 2013

Duty, n:
	What one expects from others.
		-- Oscar Wilde
Autocommit Mon Nov 25 19:41:50 NZDT 2013

Now I lay me down to study,
I pray the Lord I won't go nutty.
And if I fail to learn this junk,
I pray the Lord that I won't flunk.
But if I do, don't pity me at all,
Just lay my bones in the study hall.
Tell my teacher I've done my best,
Then pile my books upon my chest.
Autocommit Mon Nov 25 19:42:50 NZDT 2013

If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
Autocommit Wed Nov 27 19:51:39 NZDT 2013

Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.
		-- Ogden Nash
Autocommit Wed Nov 27 19:53:38 NZDT 2013

St. Patrick was a gentleman
who through strategy and stealth
drove all the snakes from Ireland.
Here's a toasting to his health --
but not too many toastings
lest you lose yourself and then
forget the good St. Patrick
and see all those snakes again.
Autocommit Wed Nov 27 19:58:40 NZDT 2013

Don't kiss an elephant on the lips today.
Autocommit Wed Nov 27 19:59:38 NZDT 2013

His ideas of first-aid stopped short of squirting soda water.
		-- P.G. Wodehouse
Autocommit Wed Nov 27 20:23:38 NZDT 2013

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
	-- Lily Tomlin
Autocommit Wed Nov 27 20:30:38 NZDT 2013

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older
people, and greatly assists in the circulation of the blood.
		-- Logan Pearsall Smith
Autocommit Wed Nov 27 20:32:38 NZDT 2013

I remember once being on a station platform in Cleveland at four in the
morning.  A black porter was carrying my bags, and as we were waiting for
the train to come in, he said to me: 'Excuse me, Mr. Cooke, I don't want to
invade your privacy, but I have a bet with a friend of mine.  Who composed
the opening theme music of 'Omnibus'?  My friend said Virgil Thomson.'  I
asked him, 'What do you say?' He replied, 'I say Aaron Copeland.' I said,
'You're right.'  The porter said,  'I knew Thomson doesn't write counterpoint
that way.'  I told that to a network president, and he was deeply unimpressed.
		-- Alistair Cooke
Autocommit Wed Nov 27 20:36:38 NZDT 2013

When a fly lands on the ceiling, does it do a half roll or a half loop?
Autocommit Wed Nov 27 20:37:38 NZDT 2013

If what they've been doing hasn't solved the problem, tell them to
do something else.
	-- Gerald Weinberg, 'The Secrets of Consulting'
Autocommit Wed Nov 27 20:44:38 NZDT 2013

File cabinet:
	A four drawer, manually activated trash compactor.
Autocommit Wed Nov 27 20:45:38 NZDT 2013

The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another
mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same
being who produces the impressions.
		-- Marquis D.A.F. de Sade
Autocommit Wed Nov 27 20:46:38 NZDT 2013

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
		-- Hannah Arendt
Autocommit Wed Nov 27 20:47:38 NZDT 2013

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths good theatre.
		-- Gail Godwin
Autocommit Wed Nov 27 20:50:38 NZDT 2013

Question: Is it better to abide by the rules until they're changed or
help speed the change by breaking them?
Autocommit Wed Nov 27 21:11:38 NZDT 2013

'Trust me':
	Translation of the Latin 'caveat emptor.'
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Autocommit Wed Nov 27 21:24:38 NZDT 2013

It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing
thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self-critical?
		-- Alan Perlis