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Last Updated November 22, 1998

    Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.  - Albert Einstein

Judge not the horse by his saddle.  - Chinese Proverb

Murphy's Second Law: Everything takes longer than you think.

Murphy's Third Law: In any field of scientific endeavour, anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

Murphy's Fourth Law: If there is a possibility of several things going  wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

Scitum est inter caecos luscum regnare posse. (It is well known, that among the blind the one-eyed man is king.)  - Gerard Didier Erasmus (c. 1465-1536)

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or very foolish imagine otherwise.  - George Orwell

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.  - Boris Yeltsin