I may not like what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to die in a fire of suspicious origin. - Anonymous % "It is not only impossible to please all of the people all of the time, but sometimes it is very difficult to please any of the people any of the time." -- Margaret Milner Richardson, former commissioner of the IRS % - This is the main thing to understand from these experiments - yes, they'd probably fail when removed from that environment, but then conventionally evolved life, which has adapted in the same way to use what's around it (Humans for example, in a most basic sense, use oxygen, certain foods, night/day to stay functioning and sane) are the same. Stick us in a different atmosphere, feed us nothing but one nutrient (say, caffeine) and keep it permanent nighttime, and we turn into coders. - danamania on Slashdot % "I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind." -Alan Kay % "We have had ONE trick or treater. How the hell am I supposed to make dinner with just one kid?" - SWinder in #phreak on efnet, language fixed % The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. -- James D. Nicoll %