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APHASIA:
        Loss of speech in social scientists when asked
        at parties, "But of what use is your research?"

aphorism, n.:
        A concise, clever statement.
afterism, n.:
        A concise, clever statement you don't think of until too late.
                -- James Alexander Thom

APL hackers do it in the quad.

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.  It is the language of the
future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation
of coding bums.
                -- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5

APL is a natural extension of assembler language programming;
...and is best for educational purposes.
                -- A. Perlis

APL is a write-only language.  I can write programs
in APL, but I can't read any of them.
                -- Roy Keir

Appearances often are deceiving.
                -- Aesop

APPENDIX:
        A portion of a book, for which nobody yet has discovered any use.

Applause, n:
        The echo of a platitude from the mouth of a fool.
                -- Ambrose Bierce

April is the cruelest month...
                -- Thomas Stearns Eliot