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| 2 Coming together is a beginning; | |
| 3 keeping together is progress; | |
| 4 working together is success. | |
| 5 --- | |
| 6 In the beginning there was only one kind of Mathematician, created by | |
| 7 the Great Mathamatical Spirit form the Book: the Topologist. And they grew to | |
| 8 large numbers and prospered. | |
| 9 One day they looked up in the heavens and desired to reach up as far | |
| 10 as the eye could see. So they set out in building a Mathematical edifice that | |
| 11 was to reach up as far as "up" went. Further and further up they went ... | |
| 12 until one night the edifice collapsed under the weight of paradox. | |
| 13 The following morning saw only rubble where there once was a huge | |
| 14 structure reaching to the heavens. One by one, the Mathematicians climbed | |
| 15 out from under the rubble. It was a miracle that nobody was killed; but when | |
| 16 they began to speak to one another, SUPRISE of all suprises! they could not | |
| 17 understand each other. They all spoke different languages. They all fought | |
| 18 amongst themselves and each went about their own way. To this day the | |
| 19 Topologists remain the original Mathematicians. | |
| 20 -- The Story of Babel | |
| 21 --- | |
| 22 This "brain-damaged" epithet is getting sorely overworked. When we can | |
| 23 speak of someone or something being flawed, impaired, marred, spoiled; | |
| 24 batty, bedlamite, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crazed, cuckoo, daft, demented, | |
| 25 deranged, loco, lunatic, mad, maniac, mindless, non compos mentis, nuts, | |
| 26 Reaganite, screwy, teched, unbalanced, unsound, witless, wrong; senseless, | |
| 27 spastic, spasmodic, convulsive; doped, spaced-out, stoned, zonked; {beef, | |
| 28 beetle,block,dung,thick}headed, dense, doltish, dull, duncical, numskulled, | |
| 29 pinhead; asinine, fatuous, foolish, silly, simple; brute, lumbering, oafish; | |
| 30 half-assed, incompetent; backward, retarded, imbecilic, moronic; when we have | |
| 31 a whole precisely nuanced vocabulary of intellectual abuse to draw upon, | |
| 32 individually and in combination, isn't it a little <fill in the blank> to be | |
| 33 limited to a single, now quite trite, adjective? | |
| 34 --- | |
| 35 Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have | |
| 36 much of anything to do with it. | |
| 37 --- | |
| 38 A sadist is a masochist who follows the Golden Rule. | |
| 39 --- | |
| 40 Any road followed to its end leads precisely nowhere. | |
| 41 Climb the mountain just a little to test it's a mountain. | |
| 42 From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain. | |
| 43 -- Bene Gesserit proverb, "Dune" | |
| 44 --- | |
| 45 Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to | |
| 46 pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time. | |
| 47 -- Larry Wall in <1992Aug13.192357.15731@netlabs.com> | |
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| 70 I loved her with a love thirsty and desperate. I felt that we two might commit | |
| 71 some act so atrocious that the world, seeing us, would find it irresistible. | |
| 72 -- Gene Wolfe, "The Shadow of the Torturer" | |
| 73 --- | |
| 74 Kime's Law for the Reward of Meekness: | |
| 75 Turning the other cheek merely ensures two bruised cheeks. | |
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