"Nostalgia's nice enough in little bitty doses, it puts personal peach fuzz on the hard ass of history..."
It's a matter of usage. If a house is off-plumb and rickety and lets in the wind, you blame the mason, not the bricks. Our words are up to the job. It's our syntax that's limiting."
Old age is the one disease you don't look forward to being cured of.
The difference between a hacker and consumer is a consumer says, "I wish it would work this way." A hacker says, "I've got a screwdriver and a few minutes."
Don't count on playing God - He's a lot sneakier than we suspected just a couple years ago.
There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance.
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins