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the Orphic Egg. Orphism was the mystery religion that gave rise to the Dionysian mysteries.

I wonder if we're dealing with an amateur," she said. "Who keeps a revolver in his sock drawer? This isn't America.

No other foreskin could have caused such trouble.

The English murder their meat twice: once when they shoot it, again when they cook it. 'Drôle, n'est-ce pas'?

Oh, that,' he said. 'Poncet is grooming his ass.

If facts were discarded and reality ignored, Jillybean was doing just dandy.

Himmler, as indeed Hitler, was more victim than creator of the natural disaster that engulfed Germany and the world.

propagating the demonology of the Jew – and, if Himmler is any guide, with dreadful sincerity.

There's a brilliant quote by Tony Hoare in his Turing Award speech about how there are two ways to design a system: "One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.

Seibel: There's a Dijkstra quote about how you can't prove by testing that a program is bug-free, you can only prove that you failed to find any bugs with your tests. But it sort of sounds the same way with a proof-you can't prove a program is bug-free with a proof-you can only prove that, as far as you understand your own proof, it hasn't turned up any bugs.

Language systems stand on a tripod. There's the language, there's the libraries, and there are the tools. And how successful a language is depends on a complex interaction between those three things.

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the WAR ROOM!!!

They would nod their heads and quote complacently the old saw that a Captain in the Royal Navy is always mad, and a Commander always going mad, and they smiled with pleasure if he so much as noticed them.

One of the things I've always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it - like, not to change.

Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.

I said, "Thank you. Go the Saints. Goodbye." Go the Saints; I'd said it. The first time. It felt like...coming out.

It is a bit unnerving sitting across from a convicted serial killer. But

to come as lodestones for the history we have

Doubt is an awful snake of an emotion. Once it has you in it's grip, it won't let go. It spoils everything.

So. The laws of physics were the OS of some inconceivable supercomputer called reality. At

God is a sadist on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, and His name is Physics.

When you're undead, the emphasis is on the second syllable.