- The Law of interpersonal exothermodynamics: There is no personal problem that cannot be solved with the proper application of a suitable quantity of high explosives. Dragon's Corrolary : The law of computational kinetics: There is no problem in computer science that cannot be solved by proper application of a suitably large hammer. - History is a large quantity of confusion put into neat order by people who lived hundreds of years after the fact. - Murphy had NO idea. - Windows 95 claims to offer 'crash protection'. (well, they got the first half) - The quickest way to find all the bugs & design flaws in a program, is to let it be used by someone who knows nothing about computers. - It has come about, in this coming age, that the fundemental act of computing is no longer one of computation, but of communication. - The problem with most people is that they don't know you very well. The problem with the rest is that they do. - Television is the greatest example of the difference between knowlage , and information. It takes the equivelent of 23,000,000 uncompressed bytes of information per second to transmit a television program. Yet most half hour long shows rarely contain a single byte of knowlage. - Ancient 2 step method for finding a Dragon: First step : You find a dragon's tail. Second step: Follow it, there's bound to be a dragon on one end. - Just b'cause you may not know much about it now dosen't mean you can't learn. - Cogito sum draco, ergo sum draco. Dragon's answer to Descartes. - Whence dealing with Tyrants, be careful to remove, not replace them. - Smile, and people will wonder what your up to. Grin, and people will be afraid they'll find out. - Consider a Thing to the Degree which it is Possible, Accept a Thing to the Degree which it is Proven. - Trust the Words Of the Wise... ...But, Get Them in Writing. - It is terribly difficult to write a Perl script to recognize poetry. - The Law of Universal Perversity: (Note, Murphy's laws are an approximation, and subset of this law, much as Newton's laws are a subset & approximation of those of Einstein) "All else being equal, in an event that has two or more possible outcomes, the one that will occur will be the most inconvenient." - I shall respond to responces to what I said. I shall Not respond to responces to what you Think I said. - I think I know what I say when I say it. You may think you know what I think I say when I say it. However I think what you think I think I know is not what I think I know when I think I know what I say when I say it. - I can't network with people. They don't speak TCP/IP. - The logic behind governments is that by having them around, their military and police strength protects us from others who would do us harm. Following similar reasoning, then, we should all keep a rabid bear in our living room to ward off intruders. - "There once was a bard from Belhaggin Who wrote a blue song 'bout a dragon. The song was a smash, but the bard became ash, When word got back to the Dragon." - "Dreams are amazing things.. They show you that the obvious isn't, the non-obvious might be, and that even your own mind can produce things beyond your comprehention. If you yourself can contain such mysteries, imagine what the infinitely vaster unuiverse could contain. " - Dragon's Tips: On Government... If, in a conversation about Government or Society, you hear someone use the word "They", as in "They aught to...", you should suggest to that person that it would be just as accurate, and much more productive, to substitute the word "I" instead. - Dragon's Tips: On Religion... Never trust any religion with any variation of the word "Science" in it's name. - Dragon's Tips: On Philosophy... If you ever come across a philosophy that does not discriminate between objective fact and opinion, I highly suggest that _you_ do not discriminate between that philiosophy and bullshit. -