ON DEEP THOUGHTS: A day without sunshine is like night.
ON PARADOX AND RETURN POLICIES: There is a CD out entitled "The Worst of Jefferson Airplane". If you buy this, take it home, play it, and enjoy it, should you take it back and demand a refund?
ON MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMS: A polar bear is a rectangular bear after a coordinate transform.
ON PROBLEM SOLVING: When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail. -Abraham Maslow
ON INFINITY: If you had everything, where would you keep it?
ON ECONOMICS: The cost of living hasn't affected its popularity.
ON PUBLISHING OR PERISHING: "I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top."
English Professor, Ohio University ON REVISIONIST HISTORY: What was sliced bread the greatest thing since?
ON DATING: When aiming for the common denominator, be prepared for the occasional division by zero.
ON LAMENTATION: Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
ON POETIC LOVE: When you're swimmin' in the creek And an eel bites your cheek That's a moray!
Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers ON MODERNISM Q: How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: Two. One to hold the giraffe and the other to fill the bathtub with brightly coloured machine tools.
ON MATERIAL SCIENCE: Character density - The number of very weird people in the office.
ON LITERATURE: This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
Dorothy Parker ON HUMILITY: To err is human, to moo bovine.
ON EXPLANATION OF THE END "One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs."
Robert Firth ON EXCUSES: I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
Joe Walsh ON NUMBERS: Grabel's Law: 2 is not equal to 3---not even for very large values of 2.
ON WORLD POLITICS: Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.
AND FINALLY, ON DRUGS AND DEVELOPMENT: There are two major products to come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX.
We don't believe this to be a coincidence.