Usenet is distributed network anarchy at its best—or worst, depending on what is posted on any particular day

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them

The sane appear as strange to the mad as the mad to the san

Wisdom doesn’t automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It’s true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place

People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together

If it weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we’d still be eating frozen radio dinners

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill- designed for the purpose

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist

I believe in the possibility of miracles but more to the point, I believe in our need for them