Sayings of the Wise & Learned:

What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.
-- Richard Harkness, The New York Times, 1960


Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw.


Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
-- Andrew Tannenbaum


We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
-- Mark Twain


Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant


Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way.


On one occasion a student burst into his office. "Professor Stigler, I don't believe I deserve this F you've given me." To which Stigler replied, "I agree, but unfortunately it is the lowest grade the University will allow me to award."


Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
-- Mark Twain