The computer may be incompetent in itself--that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed. This kind of incompetence can never be eliminated, because the Peter Principle applies in the plants where computers are designed and manufactured.

Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

When I could find something to laugh about for 30 minutes, my grief lightened just enough to make the day bearable.

When I was young, I thought it is thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in the high school, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The voice of the thunder itself is just a noise. The lightning is the poise!

My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.