The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that's because it's

the best book on anything for the layman.

Alan J. Perlis

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Dorothy Parker

Index 761

It's a dmn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word!

Andrew Jackson

Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes...

Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark (an Agony in Eight Fits)

Colophon 892

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Tennessee Williams

Someday, Weederman, we'll look back on all this and laugh... It will probably be one of

those deep, eerie ones that slowly builds to a blood-curdling maniacal scream, but still it will

be a laugh.

Joe Martin, Mister Boffo

A child can go only so far in life without potty training. It is not mere coincidence that six of

the last seven presidents were potty trained, not to mention nearly half of the nation's state

legislators.

Dave Barry

Exercises 893

Quotes 907

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