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Autocommit Wed Nov 27 20:27:38 NZDT 2013

For years a secret shame destroyed my peace--
I'd not read Eliot, Auden or MacNiece.
But now I think a thought that brings me hope:
Neither had Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope.
		-- Justin Richardson.
Autocommit Wed Nov 27 20:28:38 NZDT 2013

Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow.
Autocommit Wed Nov 27 20:30:38 NZDT 2013

Do not simplify the design of a program if a way can be found to make
it complex and wonderful.
Autocommit Wed Nov 27 20:31:38 NZDT 2013

Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious animal on earth.
Autocommit Wed Nov 27 20:35:38 NZDT 2013

...Another writer again agreed with all my generalities, but said that as an
inveterate skeptic I have closed my mind to the truth.  Most notably I have
ignored the evidence for an Earth that is six thousand years old.  Well, I
haven't ignored it; I considered the purported evidence and *then* rejected it.
There is a difference, and this is a difference, we might say, between
prejudice and postjudice.  Prejudice is making a judgment before you have
looked at the facts.  Postjudice is making a judgment afterwards.  Prejudice
is terrible, in the sense that you commit injustices and you make serious
mistakes.  Postjudice is not terrible.  You can't be perfect of course; you
may make mistakes also.  But it is permissible to make a judgment after you
have examined the evidence.  In some circles it is even encouraged.
- Carl Sagan, The Burden of Skepticism, Skeptical Enquirer, Vol. 12, pg. 46
Autocommit Wed Nov 27 20:39:38 NZDT 2013

If at first you don't succeed, quit; don't be a nut about success.
Autocommit Wed Nov 27 20:43:38 NZDT 2013

QOTD:
	'I only touch base with reality on an as-needed basis!'