This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life,
you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where
to go.
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
--- B. Russell
"There's so much I don't know about astrophysics!"
---Homer Simpson
"Remember, never ask a geek "why"; just
nod your head and back away slowly..."
We measure things. We spend countless dull hours
measuring the swing of a pendulum, the heat of an acid,
the twitch of a muscle. But only with these measurements
in hand can we begin our dialogue with the Cosmos.
--- Anonymous
"Good luck. If you turn out to be a genius after all, remember that I
never once for a moment believed in you."
--- Orson Scott Card (1996)
...the moral of that is 'Be what you would seem to be' - or, if you'd like
it to put more simply - 'Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than
what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was
no otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be
otherwise'
[Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland].
The first part of the human story is simple:
We rose out of the primeval muck to peer at the stars.
The second part of the story has yet to be written.
--- Anonymous
Ah. So if I understand this correctly, the meaning of sex
is to produce more EMACS users. I am suddenly enlightened.
--- Leif Nixon, alt.religion.emacs
"You can bring any calculator you like to the midterm, as long as it
doesn't dim the lights when you turn it on."
