From buddy Mon Nov 7 19:31:19 1994 Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 22:52:11 Subject: Forwarded mail.... Dimensions will always be expressed in the least usable term. Velocity, for example, will be expressed in furlongs per fortnight. Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them. Fools rush in where fools have been before. Inside every small problem is a large problem struggling to get out. Handy Guide to Modern Science: 1. If it's green or it wiggles, it's biology. 2. If it stinks, it's chemistry. 3. If it doesn't work, it's physics. The shortest path between two points goes across the lawn. There are three ways to get something done: 1) Do it yourself. 2) Pay somebody to do it. 3) Forbid your kids to do it. Women love the simple things in life: men. If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will. (Paul Harvey News, 1979) Adolescence: The stage of life between puberty and adultery. Conscience: The thing that hurts when everything else feels great. A conclusion is often simply the place where someone got tired of thinking. A fool must now and then be right by chance. If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. God gave us two ears and one mouth. That ought to tell us something. Going to church does not make a person religious, nor does going to school make a person educated, any more than going to a garage makes a person a car. Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own. Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. Sometimes what a person escapes to is worse than what they escapes from. The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. The more things change, the more they stay insane. The universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it. There's a fine line between courage and foolishness. Too bad it's not a fence. Wasting time is an important part of living. "Great leaders are rare, so I'm following myself." People tend to make rules for others and exceptions for themselves. Thomas Edison is alleged to have remarked about his laboratory, "There ain't no rules around here. We're trying to accomplish something." Only those who attempt the absurd ... will achieve the impossible It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.