Autocommit Sun Dec 01 09:13:41 NZDT 2013

Don't hit a man when he's down -- kick him; it's easier.
Autocommit Sun Dec 01 09:15:41 NZDT 2013

In every non-trivial program there is at least one bug.
Autocommit Sun Dec 01 09:17:41 NZDT 2013

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
		-- George Orwell, 'Reflections on Gandhi'
Autocommit Sun Dec 01 09:18:41 NZDT 2013

Every man is apt to form his notions of things difficult to be apprehended,
or less familiar, from their analogy to things which are more familiar.
Thus, if a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk
only of matters relating to navigation, enters into discourse upon any other
subject; it is well known, that the language and the notions proper to his
own profession are infused into every subject, and all things are measured
by the rules of navigation: and if he should take it into his head to
philosophize concerning the faculties of the mind, it cannot be doubted,
but he would draw his notions from the fabric of the ship, and would find
in the mind, sails, masts, rudder, and compass.
		-- Thomas Reid, 'An Inquiry into the Human Mind', 1764
Autocommit Sun Dec 01 09:19:41 NZDT 2013

Fortune finishes the great quotations, #17

	'This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,
	May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.'
	Juliet, this bud's for you.
Autocommit Sun Dec 01 09:30:41 NZDT 2013

Emotions are alien to me.  I'm a scientist.
		-- Spock, 'This Side of Paradise', stardate 3417.3
Autocommit Sun Dec 01 09:35:41 NZDT 2013

pediddel:
	A car with only one working headlight.
		-- 'Sniglets', Rich Hall & Friends
Autocommit Sun Dec 01 09:36:41 NZDT 2013

Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repainting.
		-- Billy Rose
Autocommit Sun Dec 01 09:37:41 NZDT 2013

'When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical.'
		-- Jon Carroll
Autocommit Sun Dec 01 09:39:41 NZDT 2013

Alone, adj.:
	In bad company.
		-- Ambrose Bierce, 'The Devil's Dictionary'
Autocommit Sun Dec 01 09:40:41 NZDT 2013

A student asked the master for help... does this program run from the
Workbench? The master grabbed the mouse and pointed to an icon. 'What is
this?' he asked. The student replied 'That's the mouse'. The master pressed
control-Amiga-Amiga and hit the student on the head with the Amiga ROM Kernel
Manual.
-- Amiga Zen Master Peter da Silva
Autocommit Sun Dec 01 09:41:41 NZDT 2013

Uncertain fortune is thoroughly mastered by the equity of the calculation.
- Blaise Pascal
Autocommit Sun Dec 01 09:43:41 NZDT 2013

Concerning the war in Vietnam, Senator George Aiken of Vermount noted
in January, 1966, 'I'm not very keen for doves or hawks.  I think we need
more owls.'
		-- Bill Adler, 'The Washington Wits'
Autocommit Sun Dec 01 09:44:41 NZDT 2013

When the ax entered the forest, the trees said, 'The handle is one of us!'
		-- Turkish proverb
Autocommit Sun Dec 01 09:45:41 NZDT 2013

If you are a police dog, where's your badge?
		-- Question James Thurber used to drive his German Shepherd
		   crazy.
Autocommit Sun Dec 01 09:46:41 NZDT 2013

My godda bless, never I see sucha people.
		-- Signor Piozzi, quoted by Cecilia Thrale
Autocommit Sun Dec 01 09:58:41 NZDT 2013

	A ranger was walking through the forest and encountered a hunter
carrying a shotgun and a dead loon.  'What in the world do you think you're
doing?  Don't you know that the loon is on the endagered species list?'
	Instead of answering, the hunter showed the ranger his game bag,
which contained twelve more loons.
	'Why would you shoot loons?', the ranger asked.
	'Well, my family eats them and I sell the plumage.'
	'What's so special about a loon?  What does it taste like?'
	'Oh, somewhere between an American Bald Eagle and a Trumpeter Swan.'
Autocommit Sun Dec 01 09:59:41 NZDT 2013

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
		-- Christopher Morley
Autocommit Sun Dec 01 10:00:41 NZDT 2013

'Life is too important to take seriously.'
		-- Corky Siegel
Autocommit Sun Dec 01 10:02:41 NZDT 2013

If you love someone, set them free.
If they don't come back, then call them up when you're drunk.