Some quotes

[HawkerHurricane]

All side effects are effects. We can never merely one thing. – The first law of ecology

In the information age, the first step to sanity is FILTERING. Filter the information, extract the knowledge.
Filter first for substance, second for significance. These filters protect you from advertising.
Filter third for reliability. This filter protects you from politicians.
Filter fourth for completeness. This will protect you from the media.

History is a race between education and catastrophe. – H. G. Wells

To predict the future, you must successfully predict the past.

To win a war takes billions; to lose a war takes everything you’ve got.

Ready. Fire. Aim. – Motto of defense contractors.

The LKB is dead. Long live the LKB!
(LKB = ‘Last Known Bug’)

Engineering is the implementation of science.

The engineer breaks a large problem into many small problems, each of which he then solves.
The politician rolls many small problems into one large problem that no one can solve.

May the pens of diplomats never again ruin what the people have attained with such exertion. – General Blucher, after Waterloo.

[Endangered Specie]

1. "A man will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon" -Napoleon

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

2. Hey! How's civilian life? You likiing those checks flying in?

Took me a couple of months to realize that I did not have to go back.

[HawkerHurricane]

3. If the dangfool checks would show up...

Pay problems. The folks at the Cleveland help desk have so far forwarded me to
The IRS
The FBI
And a Fax Machine.
Gawds, I hate pay problems.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

4. Oy, that sucks. Happened to me too. But the lump sum is nice

in the end.