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Nostalgia

"Nostalgia's nice enough in little bitty doses, it puts personal peach fuzz on the hard ass of history..."

— Bobby Case in Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates - Tom Robbins

"On the poor use of grammer"

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."

— Switters in Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates - Tom Robbins

Old Age

Old age is the one disease you don't look forward to being cured of.

— Citizen Cane

Hackers

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."

— Boston Globe, Everyday Hackers, April 19, 2004

God and Ai

Don't count on playing God - He's a lot sneakier than we suspected just a couple years ago.

Maintenance

There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance.

— Switters

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins

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