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    From Ross Clark@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 3 08:10:14 2024
    "Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical" - Sebastian Melmoth

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  • From Stefan Ram@21:1/5 to Ross Clark on Mon Dec 2 19:35:57 2024
    Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> wrote or quoted:
    "Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical" - Sebastian Melmoth

    At that time, when I was watching "Clockwork Orange" for the
    first time, and probably was still a child, I was also an
    active amateur astronomer. Of course, I loved

    |We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
    Oscar Wilde, "Lady Windermere's Fan", 1892, Act III.

    Wilde is certainly the greatest aphorist.

    |What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and
    |the value of nothing.
    Oscar Wilde, "Lady Windermere's Fan", 1892, Act IIIA

    |The only thing that sustains one through life is the
    |consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else,
    |and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
    Oscar Wilde, "The Remarkable Rocket"

    |The only thing worse than being talked about is not being
    |talked about.
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.

    |Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but
    |it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's
    |success.
    Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism (1881)

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  • From HenHanna@21:1/5 to Stefan Ram on Wed Dec 4 07:48:35 2024
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    On Mon, 2 Dec 2024 19:35:57 +0000, Stefan Ram wrote:

    Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> wrote or quoted:
    "Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical" - Sebastian Melmoth

    At that time, when I was watching "Clockwork Orange" for the
    first time, and probably was still a child, I was also an
    active amateur astronomer. Of course, I loved

    |We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
    Oscar Wilde, "Lady Windermere's Fan", 1892, Act III.

    Wilde is certainly the greatest aphorist.


    better than that French guy?



    |What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and
    |the value of nothing.
    Oscar Wilde, "Lady Windermere's Fan", 1892, Act IIIA




    There is an old Lisper or Comp.Sci. maxim

    "LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing"


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    See {languages of choice}. All LISP functions and programs are
    expressions that return values; this, together with the high memory
    utilization of LISPs, gave rise to Alan Perlis's famous quip (itself a
    take on an Oscar Wilde quote) that "LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing".

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