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The Seventh Commandments for Technicians
        Work thou not on energized equipment, for if thou dost, thy
fellow workers will surely buy beers for thy widow and console her in
other ways.

The sheep that fly over your head are soon to land.

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
                -- Noelie Alito

The Sixth Commandment of Frisbee:
        The greatest single aid to distance is for the disc to be going
in a direction you did not want.   (Goes the wrong way = Goes a long
way.)
                -- Dan Roddick

"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity
and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted
activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy ...
neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."

"The sooner all the animals are dead, the sooner we'll find their
money."
                -- Ed Bluestone, "The National Lampoon"

"The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up!"

The sooner you make your first 5000 mistakes, the sooner you will be
able to correct them.
                -- Nicolaides

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

The Soviet pre-eminence in chess can be traced to the average Russian's
readiness to brood obsessively over anything, even the arrangement of
some pieces of wood.  Indeed, the Russians' predisposition for quiet
reflection followed by sudden preventive action explains why they led
the field for many years in both chess and ax murders.  It is well
known that as early as 1970, the U.S.S.R., aware of what a defeat at
Reykjavik would do to national prestige, implemented a vigorous program
of preparation and incentive.  Every day for an entire year, a team of
psychologists, chess analysts and coaches met with the top three
Russian grand masters and threatened them with a pointy stick.  That
these tactics proved fruitless is now a part of chess history and a
further testament to the American way, which provides that if you want
something badly enough, you can always go to Iceland and get it from
the Russians.
                -- Marshall Brickman, Playboy, April, 1973