THE Java™ Programming Language, Fourth Edition

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

14 Threads 337

At some point, you have to jump out of the plane under the assumption that you can get the

parachute sewn together in time to deploy it.

Jack Rickard

I'll play it first and tell you what it is later.

Miles Davis

15 Annotations 387

I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.

Clarence Darrow

I don't care who does the electin' as long as I get to do the nominatin'.

Boss Tweed

16 Reflection 397

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the

commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those that are worth committing.

Samuel Butler

Be and not seem.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.

Mark Twain

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up.

G.K. Chesterton

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For some reason a glaze passes over people's faces when you say "Canada". Maybe we should

invade South Dakota or something.

Sandra Gotlieb, wife of Canadian ambassador to U.S. (19811989)

When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog along to see the sport, he should take