“Under no circumstance should you punish your users for using your system.

“If any literary work is too long to be read at one sitting.. if two sittings be required, the affairs of the world interfere, and everything like totality is at once destroyed.

“To measure the large amount of energy produced in a supernova per second, specialists occasionally use a unit of energy known as a “foe”, an acronym derived from the phrase [ten to the power] fifty-one ergs. In comparison, if the Sun had its current luminosity throughout its entire 10-billion-year lifetime, it would produce 1.2 foe.

“The disease metaphor for viral marketing is misleading. Trends are more like forest fires: there are thousands a year, but only a few become roaring monsters. In those rare situations, the landscape is ripe: sparse rain, dry woods, badly equipped fire departments. If these conditions exist, any old match will do.

“Common Lisp makes the classic lisp error of confusing symbols (a data type) with variables (a language level object).

“Entrepreneurship flourishes when there are diseconomies of scale and dies when there are economies of scale.

“Bush’s inspiring, prosyletizing Methodist is in fact a silver-tongued horse thief fleeing from a lynch mob.

“We completely fell into the “if you build it, they will come” trap. We built it. Nobody came.

“Sometimes I think that they call them Whitepapers because you’re getting snowed.

“The name “Australia” is derived from the Latin Australis, meaning “Southern”. Legends of an “unknown land of the south” (terra australis incognita) dating back to Roman times were commonplace in mediæval geography..