| There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night. | |
— Ernest Bramah (Kai Lung stories) 0 comments. | BUM: Say, mister, can you spare a dollar?
CRACKERS: I can easily spare the sum you name, but it seems to me that most beggars would customarily suggest a more modest amount, such as a nickel.
BUM: I guess they would, at that; but I am ambitious, and mean to rise in my chosen calling. — Horatio Alligator, "Admiral Boniface's Parrot" (in "American Pie") 0 comments. |
| Programmers [...] often take refuge in an understandable, but disastrous, inclination towards complexity and ingenuity in their work. Forbidden to design anything larger than a program, they respond by making that program intricate enough to challenge their professional skill. | |
— Michael A. Jackson Geek-only. 0 comments. | "Bother," said Pooh, as he walked through the security beam. 0 comments. |