音节划分：se?cret
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秘密，机密；
秘密的，机密的；
不能说的秘密；
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1. The word "secretary" comes from the same Latin root as the word "secret".
单词secretary和secret有同样的拉丁词根。
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2. It's an open secret that the security service bugged telephones.
安全部门窃听电话是人人皆知的秘密。
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3. The nature of the polymer is currently a trade secret.
这一聚合物的性质目前是个商业机密。
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4. He's accused of misusing $17.5 million from a secret government slush fund.
他被指控滥用秘密的政府行贿基金，金额达1,750万美元。
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5. The exact locations are being kept secret for reasons of security.
确切地点因为安全原因要保密。
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分立的 (dis分开+cret区别+e→分开区别→不同的)
慎重的,谨慎的 (dis分开+creet=cret区别→区别对待)
秘密[的] (se分开+cret区别→分开来放→秘密的)
谨慎,小心 (discrete[adj.分立的]+ion动作或状态→discretion谨慎,小心)
分泌;藏匿 (se分开+cret分辨+e→分辨开→分泌;藏起来)
be in (on) the secret
1. 知道内情
1. 暗地里，秘密地
make no secret of something
1. 不隐瞒某事
1. “隐蔽的;偏僻的”释义下的同义词
其他释义下的同义词
1. “秘密的;神秘的”释义下的反义词
其他释义下的反义词
ADJ-GRADED
能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词
秘密的;机密的;保密的 If something is secret, it is known about by only a small number of people, and is not told or shown to anyone else.&
【搭配模式】：ADJ n
Soldiers have been training at a secret location...
士兵们一直在一个秘密场所训练。
The police have been trying to keep the documents secret.
警方一直设法将这些文件保密。
He wore a hidden microphone to secretly tape-record conversations.
他身上藏了一个传声器，打算偷偷录下谈话内容。
...secretly organised events.
秘密组织的活动
秘密;机密;内情 A secret is a fact that is known by only a small number of people, and is not told to anyone else.&
I think he enjoyed keeping our love a secret...
我觉得他喜欢和我偷偷摸摸地谈恋爱。
I didn't want anyone to know about it, it was my secret.
我不想任何人知道这件事，这是我的秘密。
秘诀;诀窍 If you say that a particular way of doing things is the secret of achieving something, you mean that it is the best or only way to achieve it.&
【搭配模式】：the N
The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing...
成功的秘诀在于诚实和公平交易。
I learned something about writing. The secret is to say less than you need.
我学过一点写作方面的技巧，秘诀就是欲说还休。
奥秘;奥妙 Something's secrets are the things about it which have never been fully explained.&
【搭配模式】：usu pl
We have an opportunity now to really unlock the secrets of the universe...
我们现在有机会去真正解开宇宙的奥秘。
The past is riddled with deep dark secrets.
过去承载了诸多不可告人的惊天秘密。
秘密地;暗地里 If you do something in secret, you do it without anyone else knowing.&
【搭配模式】：PHR after v
Dan found out that I had been meeting my ex-boyfriend in secret.
丹发现我一直在跟前男友偷偷见面。
保守秘密 If you say that someone can keep a secret, you mean that they can be trusted not to tell other people a secret that you have told them.&
【搭配模式】：V inflects
Tom was utterly indiscreet, and could never keep a secret.
汤姆言语很不谨慎，什么时候也别想他守住秘密。
不隐瞒;开诚布公 If you make no secret of something, you tell others about it openly and clearly.&
【搭配模式】：V inflects
His wife made no secret of her hatred for the formal occasions...
他的妻子公开表示厌恶那些礼节性的场合。
Ministers are making no secret about their wish to buy American weapons.
部长们毫不隐瞒他们想要购买美国武器的愿望。
1. 秘密, 机密
I will pledge myself to a top secret.
我发誓保守这一绝密。
1. 秘密的, 机密的
I found that secret document.
我发现了那份机密文件。
He's a devious, secret person and I don't trust him.
他是一个狡猾诡秘的人, 我不相信他。
The plan is secret.
这计划是秘密的。
1. something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on);
"the combination to the safe was a secret"
"he tried to keep his drinking a secret"
2. information known onl
"the secret of Cajun cooking"
3. something that baffles understanding and
"how it got out is a mystery"
"it remains one of nature's secrets"
1. kept pri
"a secret formula"
"secret ingredients"
"secret talks"
2. conducted with or marked by hi
"clandestine intelligence operations"
"cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines"
"hole-and-corner intrigue"
"secret missions"
"a secret agent"
"secret sales of arms"
"surreptitious mobilization of troops"
"an undercover investigation"
"underground resistance"
，，，，，，，，
"a secret marriage"
"a secret bride"
"their a secret signal was a wink"
"secret messages"
"secret (or private) thoughts"
6. designe
"a hidden room or place of concealment such as a priest hole"
"a secret passage"
"the secret compartment in the desk"
7. hidden from
"a privy place to rest and think"
"a secluded romantic spot"
"a secret garden"
8. (of information) given in con
"closet information"
"this arrangement must be kept confidential"
"their secret communications"
"a closet alcoholic"
"closet liberals"
10. having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious beyond or
"mysterious symbols"
"the mystical style of Blake"
"occult lore"
"the secret learning of the ancients"
11. the next to highest level of official classification for documents
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2. 不能说的秘密
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介词：是一种用来表示词与词、词与句之间的关系的虚词，在句中不能单独作句子成分。介词后面一般有名词代词或相当于名词的其他词类，短语或从句作它的宾语。介词的分类：（1）表示时间，处所：从 自 自从 于 打 到 往 在 当 朝 向 顺着 沿着 随着（2）表示方式：按 照 按照 依 依照 本着 经过 通过 根据 以 凭（3）表示目的：为 为了 为着（4）表示原因：因 由于 因为（5）表示对象，范围：对 对于 把 向 跟 与 同 给 关于（6）表示排除：除 除了 除去 除非（7）表示被动：被 叫 让 给（8）表示比较：比 和 同上述介词中的“着，了，过”是语素，不是动态助词。介词at, in, on的区别:&1. 表示时间，注意以下用法：(1) 表示时间的某一点、某一时刻或年龄等用 at。如：I get up at six in the morning. 我早上六点钟起床。He got married at the age of 25. 他 25 岁结婚。(2) 泛指一般意义的上午、下午或晚上以及月或年等较长的时间，一般用 in。如：We watch TV in the evening. 我们晚上看电视。He went to Japan in 1946. 他于 1946 去了日本。(3) 若表示星期几或某一特定的日期，则用 on。如：He left here on the fifth of May. 他于 5 月 5 日离开这儿。2. 表示地点、场所、位置等，注意以下用法：(1) 表示某一点位置，用 at。如：We live at No 87 Beijing Road. 我们住在北京路 87 号。The hospital is at the end of the street. 医院在这条街的尽头。与名词所有格连用表示地点，也用 at。如：at my sister’s 在我姐姐家& at the doctor’s 在医务室(2) 表示空间或范围，用 in。如：What’s in the box? 这盒子里有什么?He lives in Paris with his wife. 他同他妻子住在巴黎。但有时两者可换用。如：The meeting was held at [in] the hotel. 会议在宾馆举行。(3) at 与 in 的另一个区别是：at 用于指较小的地方，而 in 用于指较大的地方。如：in Shanghai 在上海&&& at the station 在车站但是，大与小是相对的，有时随着说话者的着眼点不同，大地方也可能用 at(比如把一个大地方看作一个点时)。如：Our plane refuelled at London. 我们的飞机在伦敦加油。We stopped for an hour at Moscow on our way to Paris. 我们在去巴黎的途中在莫斯科停了 1 个小时。(4) 介词 on 用于地点，主要指在某物的表面。如：What’s on the table? 桌上有什么?There’s a wallet lying on the ground. 地上有个钱包。注：在少数搭配中，也用介词 on。如：He works on a farm. 他在农场工作。3. 在某些搭配中，三者的区别与英国英语和美国英语有关：in the street (英) / on the street (美) 在街上in the road (英) / on the road (美) 在路上in the team (英) / on the team (美) 在这个队at the weekend (英) / on the weekend (美) 在周末at weekends (英) / on weekends (美) 在周末4. 有时三者的差别与搭配习惯和用法有关：in bed / on the bed 在床上in the tree (多指树外之物) / on the tree (多指树本身之物) 在树上
介词besides,but,except的用法区别：&1. 三者都可表示“除外”，但 besides 表示一种累加关系，意指“除了什么之外，还有……”；而 except 或 but 则表示一种排除关系，意指“除了什么之外，不再有……”。如：Besides his wife，his daughter also went to see him. 除他妻子外，他女儿也去看过他(即妻子女儿都去看过他)。Nobody went to see him except [but] his wife. 除他妻子外，没有一个人看过他(即只有他妻子去看过他)。注：在否定句中，besides 也表示“除……之外不再有…… ”，与but, except 同义。如：No one passed the exam besides [except] Jim. 除吉姆外，没一个人通过考试。2. 关于 but 与 except：(1) 两者都可表示“除……外不再有……”，但含义上略有差别：but侧重指意义的几乎完整性，而 except 则侧重指后面除去的部分。比较：All are here but one. 除一个人都到了。All are here except one. 还有一个人没到。(2) 在现代英语中，but 的介词用法十分有限，一般说来，它只能用在下列词语之后：① no, no one, nobody, nothing, nowhere 等② any, anyone, anybody, anything, anywhere 等③ every, everyone, everybody, everything, everywhere 等④ all, none 等⑤ who, what, where 等Everyone knows it but you. 除你之外大家都知道。I haven’t told anybody but you. 除你之外，我没告诉任何人。No one but he [him] showed much interest in it. 除他之外没有一个人对此有很大兴趣。一般说来，若没有出现上述词汇，就不宜使用介词 but，否则可能造成错句。但是 except 却没有以上限制。比较：正：The window is never opened except in summer. 除夏天外，这扇窗户从不打开。误：The window is never opened but in summer.(3) but 一定不能用于句首，except 通常不用于句首：除我之外每个人都累了。正：Everyone is tired but (except) me.正：Everyone but (except) me is tired.误：But (Except) me, everyone is tired.注：except for 可用于句首，表示 except 的意思：正：Except for me, everyone is tired.3. 关于 except 与 except for：except 主要用来谈论同类的东西，而 except for 则主要用来谈论不同类的东西，有时含有惋惜之意。如：All compositions are well written except yours. 除了你的作文外，其他的作文都写得很好。His composition is good except for a few spelling mistakes. 他的作文写得不错，只是有几处拼写错误。注：若用于句首，则 except for 与 except 同义(但 except 通常不用于句首)。4. 关于 except for 与 but for：except for 主要表示排除，but for 主要表示一种虚拟条件(与虚拟语气连用)。如：Except for me, everyone passed the exam. 除了我之外，大家都通过了考试。But for my help, she would not have passed the exam. 若不是我的帮助，她就不会通过考试。But for the atmosphere plants would die. 如果没有大气，植物就会死亡。5. besides 除用作介词外，还用作副词，其意为“此外”、“而且”，可用于分句句首(通常用逗号隔开)或句尾。如：I don’ besides, I’m too tired. 我不想去，而且我也太累了。This car belongs to Smith, and he has two others besides. 这部车是史密斯的，此外他还有两部。介词的用法口诀：
早、午、晚要用in，at黎明、午夜、点与分。
年、月、年月、季节、周，阳光、灯、影、衣、冒in。
将来时态in。。。以后，小处at大处in。
有形with无形by，语言、单位、材料in。
特征、方面与方式，心情成语惯用in。
介词at和to表方向，攻击、位置、恶、善分。
日子、日期、年月日，星期加上早、午、晚，
收音、农场、值日on，关于、基础、靠、着论。
着、罢、出售、偷、公、假，故意、支付、相反，准。
特定时日和“一……就”，on后常接动名词。
年、月、日加早、午、晚，of之前on代in。
步行、驴、马、玩笑on，cab，carriage则用in。
at山脚、门口、在当前，速、温、日落、价、核心。
工具、和、同随with，具有、独立、就、原因。
就……来说宾译主，对、有、方状、表细分。
海、陆、空、车、偶、被by，单数、人类knowtoman。
this、that、tomorrow，yesterday，next、last、one。
接年、月、季、星期、周，介词省略已习惯。
over、under正上下，above、below则不然，
若与数量词连用，混合使用亦无关。‘
beyond超出、无、不能，against靠着，对与反。
besides，except分内外，among之内along沿。
同类比较except，加for异类记心间。
原状becauseof，、owingto、dueto表语形容词
under后接修、建中，of、from物、化分。
before、after表一点，ago、later表一段。
before能接完成时，ago过去极有限。
since以来during间，since时态多变换。
与之相比beside，除了lastbutone。
复不定for、找、价、原，对、给、段、去、为、作、赞。
快到、对、向towards，工、学、军、城、北、上、南。
butfor否定用虚拟，复合介词待后言。
ing型由于鉴，除了除外与包合。
之后、关于、在。。。。。。方面，有关介词须记全。
in内to外表位置，山、水、国界to在前。
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A woman can even become a Buddha, but for that she must
first come back as a man. - from Beyond Rangoon
"We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and
to be greedy when others are fearful." - Warren Buffett
"You can't go around building a better world for people.
people can build a better world for people.
Otherwise it's
just a cage." -- (Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad)
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists
elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact
us!" - Calvin & Hobbes
"A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe"
"Just remember, in 10 years no one will care.
In fact most
people probably don't care right now." -- Conrad E. Muller
"Praise the beautiful for their intelligence and the intelligent
for their beauty." -- Casanova
"Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign
your name you'd have to pay cash." - Rita Mae Brown
It's always darkest before you step on the cat.
"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it"
John Gilmore
"I was raised to be charming, not sincere."
-- Cinderella's Prince, "Into the Woods"
"Computer experts vastly underestimate the time required to
beat the World Champion. Chess experts, on the other hand,
vastly overestimate the time involved" [Hans Berliner, 1988]
Whenever you see food beautifully arranged on a plate, you know
someone's fingers have been all over it.
Julia Child
"It's never too late to have a happy childhood" - Cutter John, Bloom County
You're one in a million.
Which means there are about a thousand
people just like you somewhere in China.
"Doing STRANGE THINGS in the name of ART, and STRANGER
THINGS in the name of CHOCOLATE." - Christina M. Callihan
"You aren't free because you CAN choose -
only if you DO choose."
He's a born-again Christian.
The trouble is, he suffered brain
damage during rebirth.
--Anonymous
"The church is a hospital for sinners, not a club for saints."
"Most people stumble over the truth, now and then, but they usually
manage to pick themselves up and go on, anyway." - Winston Churchill
The Mahatma Gandhi was once asked, "Mr Gandhi, what do
you think of Western Civilization?" He replied, "I think
that it would be an excellent idea."
"The secret is sincerity, if you can fake that you've got it made."
- John K Clark
"Dying's easy...comedy's hard." - Nell Gwyn
'Only Six computers will ever be sold in the commercial market'
Howard Aiken (The designer of the first IBM computer)
"When my species comes to rule this planet, your name will be
on the protected rolls." - Beldar Conehead
"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be
ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is
something to be ashamed of." - Confucius
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will
the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and
determination alone are omnipotent. - Calvin Coolidge
"Love and a cough cannot be hid"
Francis Bacon
"What this country needs is less people telling us what this
country needs"
"No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries
to involve it in his own stupidity." - Jacques Cousteau
"AI has completely changed the cow."
"The best way to rob a bank is to own one." - William Crawford
Under the Southern Cross I stand,
A can of Fosters in my hand,
A native of my native Land,
Australia, you f###### beauty!
- The Australian Cricket Team Chant (or so I heard)
"The game of croquet, to which I have given such a large portion
of my life, fuses so many different elements: competition, a fine
eye, a sharp mind, a firm stroke, a large amount of patience,
ability to plan ahead and, by no means the least, a control of
one's temper." - Jack R. Osborn
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the
The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places
no one has ever been. -- Alan Ashley-Pitt
"For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to
grow but phone calls taper off."
"As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed,
the Internet deserves the highest protection from government
intrusion," - the three-judge panel that issued a preliminary
injuction blocking as unconstitutional the Communications
Decency Act.
"I love Jewish food, but when you eat it, 72 hours later
you're hungry again." - deli aficionado Richard F. Shepard
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable
from a rigged demo." - Thom DeCarlo
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it,
doesn't go away." - Phillip K. Dick
"Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which
could only have originated in California." --Edsger Dijkstra
"The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place
where they can do the least damage - MANAGEMENT" - The Dilbert Principle
"If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"May I rescue you?"
Ginger: "No, thank you.
I prefer being in distress."
- `Top Hat,' RKO 1935
"Paradigm shifting without a clutch" - Dogbert
"We humans are a curious sort...
Little girls like dolls and little boys like soldiers.
When we grow up, women like soldiers and men like dolls."
- Monee C. Kidd
"Have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner." - Francis Drake
"The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad."
-Thomas Dolby
If DSS is a flop, you can always use that 19" dish as a bird
bath, discus, snow sled, chinese hat, hub cap, salad bowl....
Now thats Multimedia!
I bought this book called "Java Programming for Dummies" and
I am completely lost.
"Civilization exists by geologic consent, subject to change without notice."
- Will Durant
"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace"
- Amelia Earhart
"The value of an idea lies in the using of it." - Thomas Edison
"What sculpture is to a block of marble,
education is to a human soul" - Joseph Addison
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful
We have created a society that honors the servant and has
forgotten the gift." - Albert Einstein.
Make no friendship with an elephant keeper
unless you have room to entertain an elephant.
"I suppose some editors are failed writers, but so are
most writers." - T. S. Elliot
"If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and the Elvis
impersonators would be dead." - Johnny
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us
with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
-- Galileo Galilei
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
-- Paul Erdos
"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new
landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust
"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure."
-Thomas A. Edison
"Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them."
- Larry Wall
"Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have
forgotten your aim." -
George Santayana
"Reality is for people who can't handle fantasy."
"If you eat less and live longer, over time you'll
have eaten just as much." - Michael Feldman
"It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction.
Fiction has to make sense." - Mark Twain
"Stocks are now at what looks like a permanent high plateau" -- noted
economist Irving Fisher, 2 weeks before the 1929 stock market crash
"There's a fine line between fishing and
standing on the shore like an idiot." - Steven Wright
"Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent
and original in your work." - Gustave Flaubert
That is really good! Did Miriam make this?
- Stephanie March, wife of Bobby Flay
"Not if your ambition is to get high and watch TV."
- Bridget Fonda in Jackie Brown
A fool and his money are...Hey! Where's my wallet?
"Football exemplifies the worst features of American life:
it's violence punctuated by committee meetings."--George Will
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
--Benjamin Franklin
"I feel that true freedom lies within, where I shall never find it."
-- John S. Hall
"Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus."
- Francis Crick
"A friend is someone who sees through you, and still
enjoys the view" - Wilma Askinas
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying
I approved of it." - Mark Twain
"My friends, we are all interested in the future, for that is
where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives."
Sagredo (Galileo Galilei) "You present these recondite matters with
too mu this great facility makes them less
appreciated than they would be had they been presented in a more
abstruse manner." Two New Sciences
"If you look around the table and you don't know who
the sucker is, its you."
You can't win.
You can't break even.
You can't even quit the game.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they
attack you.
And then you win." - Gandhi
"And to this day it still thrills me to know that if I can get
the program right it will always work perfectly, every time,
just the way I told it to." - Bill Gates
"Nobody believes me when I say this, but the Germans
even drink more than the Russians." - Ali Akgun,
hotel manager at the Kemer Holiday Club in Turkey
"I was an atheist, until I found out I was God."
"Blood is a special kind of juice" - Goethe
In 1912 an American enthusiast made golfing history, when
she took 166 strokes over a 130-yard hole.
During the qualifying round of the Shawnee Invitational for
Ladies at Shawnewe-on-Delaware, Pennsylvania, she confidently
approached the sixteenth hole for which four strokes were
normally adequate.
Her first shot, however, sent the ball into the
Binniekill River, an obstacle which many would regard as final.
When she saw that it floated she boarded a rowing boat, with
her husband at the oars and herself at the prow, wielding a golf
For one and a half miles her husband rowed and kept count
of the occasions upon which she had cause to swipe at it.
Eventually, she beached the thing and made her way back
through a forest.
Fellow competitors had given up hope of ever
seeing her again, when they heard the cry of 'fore' and saw the
ball fly on the green from a totally unexpected direction.
completed the hole in just under two hours.
"Government is not suggestion nor persuasion, it is force...and force
is violence. ...When you advocate any government action, you first
must believe that violence is the best answer to the question at hand."
-- Laws of the Jungle, by Allen Thornton
"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly,
and I did. I said I didn't know." Mark Twain
"If I have made myself clear, you must have misunderstood me."
- Alan Greenspan
"I intend to live forever, or die trying."
-- Groucho Marx
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"The uniforms of this conflict will be bankers' pinstripes and programmers'
grunge just as assuredly as desert camouflage." Donald Rumsfeld
"Good people, I am the Protestant
whore." - Nell Gwyn
"It is my supposition that the Universe is not only
queerer than we imagine, it is queerer than we can
imagine." - J. B. S. Haldane
"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is
that they be properly armed."
Alexander Hamilton, the Federalist Papers at 184-8.
"When all you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
- Japanese proverb
"A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for"
-- William Shedd
`Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's
horse as he is leaping` -Julius Hare ()
"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." -- Robert A. Heinlein
"..and we'll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms
everywhere, and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the
rocks together guys!!"
"1935 will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized
nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer,
our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead
into the future." - Adolf Hitler
Honk if you love peace and quiet.
"A clever horse is a good-natured one, not an ingenious one."
- Strunk and White
"There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't
know what it's a plan for." - Fred Hoyle
"As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about
it that was very pleasurable - until I realized it wasn't a
nectarine at all, but A HUMAN HEAD!!"
Jack Handy
Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?
"If we thought this was a trap, we wouldn't be doing it, and as you
know, we have a lot of lawyers." - Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBM VP, on
using GPL software.
"All the forces in the world are not so powerful as
an idea whose time has come." -- Victor Hugo
"Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot."
"You can safely assume you've created God in your
own image when it turns out that God hates all the
same people you do." - Anne Lamot
"You're only young once, but you can be immature forever."
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with
themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz
"Impoliteness means never having to say you're sorry."
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney
"Specialization is for insects." - Robert A. Heinlein
"An endorsement will be added to your policy to exclude coverage
for loss caused by a computer's inability to properly recognize
a particular date or time." - note from American Family
"The Internet.
It just sits there."
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."
- Voltaire
"Everything that can be invented has been invented." -
Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
"That depends on what the definition of the word 'is' is."
--William Jefferson Clinton, 17 August 1998
"Live as one already dead." --Japanese saying
Anybody who thinks a little 9,000-line program that's distributed
free and can be cloned by anyone is going to affect anything
we do at Microsoft has his head screwed on wrong.
-- Bill Gates to George Gilder responding to Java
(shortly before licensing Java and dumping Blackbird)
"I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases
of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed
interstate commerce." -- J EDGAR HOOVER
"When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
-Thomas Jefferson
"Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is
good is not original and the part that is original is not good."
- Samuel Johnson
"You want to do mankind a real service?
Tell funnier jokes." - Og
Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.
- Buster Bunny (Tiny Toons)
"There is infinite hope, but not for man." -- Franz Kafka
"I later learned that every state in the Union, with the exception
of Nebraska, felt disdain for Kansas." --Louise Brooks
"I tried to make it unpleasant for the machine." --G. Kasparov
"War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy."
- George F. Kennan
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make
violent revolution inevitable." - John F. Kennedy
"Waiter, there's no fly in my soup!" -- Kermit the frog
"kill cross-platform Java by growing the polluted Java market"
- from an internal Microsoft planning document
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends
towards justice." - Martin Luther King Jr.
Love is a matter of chemistry
Sex is a matter of physics
But kinkiness requires engineering
"The scandal isn't what's illegal. The scandal is what's legal."
-- Michael Kinsley
"People demand the freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of
thought which they avoid." - Kirkegarde
"Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad."
--- Henry Kissinger
BTW, did you know that in the 20s one of the grand whopeedoos of
the Klan who helped to bring about its reemergence owned a bed
sheet company and made a bundle!
"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only
guardian of true liberty." -- James Madison
The Las Vegas yellow pages lists 135 pages of "entertainers"
compared to 143 pages of attorneys.
"The future is not a gift, it's an achievement." - Harry Lauder
"Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others."
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
"After ecstasy, laundry." - Zen writing
There's only 1 lawyer in Lawyerville, New York.
"Less is more, more or less..." - Mary Laude
"I'm no constitutional scholar, and I'm certainly no political pundit,
no political expert... Do me a favor: the next time in fact, before
the next time we elect a president, I'm begging you, will somebody
please do a background check?" - David Letterman
"A liberal is the guy who leaves the room when a fight starts."
--IWW leader "Big Bill" Haywood.
"I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the
masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing.
They only help those who help themselves." - Andrew Carnegie
E but it doesn't matter much since nobody listens.
Q: What's the difference between Rush Limbaugh and the Hindenburg?
A: One's a huge flaming Nazi gasbag, and the other's a dirigible.
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea. If this is
tea, please bring me some coffee." - Abraham Lincoln
> Does anyone know the index of refraction for Linoleum?
At what wavelength?
"This article in full comprises 601 words but only the first 600 or
so words are available to non-members." - The Literary Encyclopedia
"I don't want to live in the hea
I want to live in my apartment." - Woody Allen
"I had learned that those who are lying or trying to cover
up something generally make a common mistake - they tend to
overact, to overstate their case." - Richard Milhous Nixon
"Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that no
matter how high we achieve, we are never satisfied." - Machiavelli
A)bort, R)etry, B)uy a Macintosh?
"It is a melancholy reflection that liberty should be equally
exposed to danger whether the government have too much or too
little power." - James Madison
> "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from
magic." - Arthur C. Clarke
"But this doesn't mean that all magic will become technology." - Eugen Leitl
"Non Impediti Ratione Cogitationis."
- Tom and Ray Magliozzi
"Every scene should be able to answer three questions:
'Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't
get it? Why now?'" - David Mamet
"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays
everybody's crazy." --CHARLES MANSON
"I'd be a bum in the street with a tin cup if the markets
were efficient." - Warren Buffet
"The markets can stay irrational longer than
you can stay solvent." - Joe Terranova
How about slipping out of those wet things and into a dry
Martini? - Noel Coward
"My friends, it is not good to be without a servant in this
but to be without a master, it appears, is a still
fataler predicament for some." - Thomas Carlyle
2 + 2 never equals 5, even for large values of 2.
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its
freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that
it values more, it will lose that too." -- W. Somerset Maugham
"Every society honors its live conformists and its
dead troublemakers." -- Mignon McLaughlin
"There's a 40% chance that I'm a meteorologist." --- J.A. Beran
"Java is not the enemy.
Sun is the enemy." - Microsoft newsletter
True power and wealth are of the mind.
"I bet the human brain is a kludge." -- Marvin Minsky
"Darling I missed you" she said, and fired again.
"All models are wrong.
Some models are useful." -- George Box
One dies only once, and it's for such a long time
... MONEY TALKS! ...
but all mine ever says is GOODBYE!
floggings will continue until morale improves
The fundamental particle of morality is called the moron.
"I really take exception to having the compiler
treat me like a moron." - Greg Kaiser
"The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics,
that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth
is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself."
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
"Explicit permission required for distribution in Microsoft Network."
Mathematicians write symphonies.
Scientists create instruments.
Engineers build music boxes.
"I don't care what you say about me as long as you
spell my name right." - Charlie O. Finley
The network is the computer... but a very slow one.
"God is dead."
--Nietzsche
"Nietzsche is dead."
"To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics."
- Florence Nightingale
"I cried when I had no hat until I met a man who had no head."
- Anonymous
"It's not just about me and my dream of doing nothing."
- Ron Livingston in Office Space
"Cochran's even got OJ believing he didn't do it." - Jay Leno
"OO is a tool, not a religion, and not a philosophy."
- Robert C. Martin
Standard opera plot: The tenor and the soprano want to
make love, but are prevented by the Baritone.
"None of the opinions expressed above are necessarily those of the
University of Sheffield Union of Students, the University of Sheffield,
Sheffield City Council, Sheffield Clay Pigeon Racing Society, Sheffield
Development Corporation, or anyone else in Sheffield.
They do however represent the majority view in Barnsley." - Joe Otten
"Ever heard of a .org crash?" - TIAA/CREF ad
"Giving power and money to the government is like giving
whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke
Orthopedist: as strong as an Ox and twice as smart.
"Any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats."
- George Orwell
Let me use my damn OS in peace, OK? I don't knock your OS,
don't knock mine, goddamn it. - Colin D. Cashman
"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the
masses not to take medicine." - William Osler
"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain
of a new idea" - Walter Bagehot
"Paradigm is a word too often used by those who would like
to have a new idea but cannot think of one."
-- Mervyn King, Deputy Governor, Bank of England
"Paranoia can reduce security." --Nick Maclaren
"I require only three things of a man: he must be
handsome, ruthless and stupid." - Dorothy Parker
Traveler, there is no path.
Paths are made by walking.
-Antonio Machado
"Peace will come when the power of love is greater
than the love of power."
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=0;x++)|&IH%*#"[k&15]))for(i=k=r=0;
j=r*r-i*i-2+x/25,i=2*r*i+y/10,j*j+i*i<11&&k++CHOCOLATE RULES AND IT KEEPS ME SANE. :-)
Are you SURE it's working??? :)
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
- Ursula K LeGuin
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for
which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
- Jean Paul Sartre
(quoted in _Harpers_, Jan. 1995 p. 25)
My music isn't modern, it's merely badly played. - Arnold Schoenberg
If it smells, it's biology.
If it blows up, it's chemistry.
If it doesn't work, it's PHYSICS!
"Early versions of the (scrabble) tiles were coated with a
chemical tasty to dogs, so replacements were big business."
- from Janet Maslin's review of Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis
I have a secret way to make $1mil from the Internet.
I will share my secret for one million dollars.
"Sentiment without action is ruination of the soul"
"The environment's in trouble -- and the more it suffers,
the tougher it is on your skin." --Seventeen Magazine
"What do you get when you combine SGI with Microsoft?
Answer: Microsoft." - Joke going around Siggraph 98
"No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes
deserves to be called a scholar." - Prof. Donald Foster
"We learn from history that we learn nothing
from history." - George Bernard Shaw
"If I neither say that a thing exists, nor deny it, nor neither,
nor both, then it will take a very long time to dispute me"
-- Sherpan philosopher
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- Sarah Biery
"Everything should be made as simple as possible,
but no simpler." - Albert Einstein
"It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his
salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
I want to die peacefully and in my sleep, like my grandfather.
Not screaming and in terror like the other passengers in his car.
"I slept with a woman once... and I thought, 'Am I gay? Am I straight?'
Then I realized... I'm just slutty! Where's *my* parade?" -- Margaret Cho
"Smile more, gentlemen! Serious face doesn't imply
intellect: the most stupid things in the world are
done with this very face..." - Baron M.
"Don't assume that the inclusion of a smiley will make the recipient happy
with what you say or wipe out an otherwise insulting comment." -- RFC 1855
"If only it were so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere
insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to
separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line
dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.
And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Please remove the
"spam.spam.eggs.sausage.and.spam"
if you want to email me.
- Tiny Green Frog
It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a
suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for
For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system.
it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain
anymore, so it eats it.
'Quantity has a quality all its own.' - Joseph Stalin
"Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease." - Elizabeth Kougianos
"What really irks them is, it is true a lot of factories are empty,
and it seems illogical to them that a country that once produced
160 million metric tons of steel now produces closer to 80 and 90.
They can't see the reason is nobody wanted all that steel."
- Jeffrey Sachs on Communist economists in Russia
"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop."
- economist Herbert Stein
"The stock market is like sex: its best just before it ends."
"I'm straight but not narrow." - bumper sticker
"The only stupid question is the one that remains unasked."
"Subtlety is the art of saying what you think and
getting out of the way before it is understood."
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close
they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison
The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is
probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners.
Ernst Jan Plugge
"If what you are doing is wrong, doing it more efficiently
makes things worse." - Verner Suomi
"Software without support is hardware." - JR/1999
"Surf first and ask questions later!"
"Steel cures." - surgeon's motto
"If you don't believe in same sex marriage, then
don't marry someone of the same sex." - Wanda Sykes
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." --Tacitus
Talk Small and Carry a Big Class Library
"We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are."
- The Talmud
"The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky" -- Solomon Short
"In football everything is complicated by the presence
of the other team." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"Yield to temptation -- it may not pass your way again"
- Lazarus Long
"Theories are like mice: they pass thru 99 holes,
but the 100th stops them." - Voltaire
"[Do not] put too much confidence in experimental results until
they have been confirmed by theory."
---Sir Arthur Eddington
"What's another word for thesaurus?" - Steven Wright
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely
rearranging their prejudices.
-- William James
"...thought is impossible without an image." - Aristotle, 325 B.C.
Die, foul thread! - bruce
"The state that separates its scholars from its warriors
will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting
by fools." -Thucydides.
"We helped Einstein invest his money. What makes you think
you should go it alone?" - poster in TIAA-CREF lobby
"All people make for poor tourists who go to visit
things and not other people." - D. Y. Milch
"One man's trash is another man's trash"
"You don't have to be a college graduate to put 2 and 2 together.
Spring Break + Drunkenness + Disrespect for rules and authority +
Sex in Lifeboats = Trouble." - from a posting to rec.travel.cruises
"Three things ruin a man: power, money, and
women." - Harry Truman
"There are three eternal elements,
They are truth, love and courage
Upon them you must stand if you want to survive
In this world of confusion"
"We can't let you have something that would let you
take over the plane." - TSA screener to a pilot
"Big whorls have little whorls
that feed on their vorticity,
and little whorls have lesser whorls
and so on to viscosity."
- L.F.Richardson
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word
is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug."
Mark Twain
"Bill Clinton's election as President is the worst thing that ever
happened to Tyson Foods and the state of Arkansas.
It's brought
us nothing but headaches and misery." - Tyson spokesman
Unix: The only computer virus with a user interface.
(such as it is...)
"Most software isn't designed.
Rather, it emerges from the
development team like a zombie emerging from a bubbling vat
of Research and Development juice" - Alan Cooper, "About Face"
"The problem with the global village is all the global
village idiots." - Paul Ginsparg
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established
authorities are wrong." - Voltaire
One night in early 1945, von Neumann woke up and told his wife,
Klari, that "what we are now creating is a monster whose
influence is going to change history, providing there is any
history left. Yet it would be impossible not to see it through."
Von Neumann was creating one of the first computers, in order to
build nuclear weapons. But, Klari said, it was the computers that
scared him the most.
"It doesn't matter if you piss a few people off,
if you know they're wrong." --George Vukelich
"Being Hitler can ruin your appreciation of wacky sitcoms."
- James "Kibo" Parry
"How many travelling salesman really care about TSP?"
- Pei Wang, referring to the travelling saleman problem
"Any future defense secretary who advises the president
to send a big American land army into Asia, or into the
Middle East or Africa, should have his head examined."
- US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates
"Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force.
And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
- George Washington
"A person with a watch knows what time it is, a person with
two is never sure."
"I divide men into those who think of women 90 percent of the
time and those who think about them 99 percent of the time.
I was a 90-percenter." - James D. Watson
There are three categories of those entitled to use 'We' in the
first person: Royalty, Editors, and People With Tapeworms. -- Mark Twain
"This redistribution of wealth is trickier than I thought."
- Dennis Moore
"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not
yet been discovered."- Emerson()
The most beautiful things in the world are those from
which all excess weight has been removed. - Henry Ford
"Keep Ted Turner and his goddamned Crayolas away from my movie."
-Orson Welles
"Use of the Internet by this poster is not to be construed as
a tacit endorsement of Western Technological Civilization or
its appurtenances." - from Stirling Westrup's sig
"I never entertain wicked thoughts...Wicked thoughts entertain me."
"You know, the best Wiener schnitzel I've ever eaten in my life is
not that much better than the worst Wiener schnitzel I've ever
eaten in my life." - diner at Danube in New York
"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called
an idea at all." - Oscar Wilde
"Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of the pox !"
"That, my Lord, depends on whether I embrace your principles
or your mistress"
John Wilkes to The Earl of Sandwich, Parliament, November 1763
"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are
constantly being either proven right or pleasantly
surprised". - George F. Will.
"Never murder a man who's committing suicide."
- Woodrow Wilson's political dictum
"Being on the tightrope is living, everything else is waiting."
- Karl Wallenda
"If the almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the
creation, I should have recommended something simpler."
- Spanish King Alphonso X, "the wise"
"Nothing corrupts a man so deeply as
writing a book." - Nero Wolfe
"If engineers designed buildings the way programmers
write code, the first woodpecker that came along
would destroy civilisation."
"More than any other time in history mankind faces a crossroads.
One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total
extinction.
Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly."
--Woody Allen
"Short words are best and the old words when
short are best of all." -- Winston Churchill
"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several
thousand things that won't work." - Thomas Edison
"Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving
your talent to people who have none." -- Jules Renard
Trust the computer industry to shorten "Year 2000" to Y2K.
this kind of thinking that caused the problem in the first place.
"If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end
to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised." --
Dorothy Parker
"If you come to a fork in the road, take it." -- Yogi Berra