Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 22, 2016
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
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James Thurber (1894 - 1961), My Life and Hard Times (1933)  
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
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Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled  
If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
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Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)  
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988), misquoting Sir Walter Scott  
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