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Quotes.

"This is only temporary ... unless it works." - Red Green

"I complain very little because...it's better than it was." - Fastball

"Making it work, takes a little longer." - Doug Bennet (Doug and the Slugs).

"What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history." - Hegel 1832.

"and I'm not buying my share of souvenirs" - Elvis Costello

"and I wonder, what am I doing here?" - Blue Rodeo

"Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art" - Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle

"Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, and weak minds discuss people." - Richard Marlon Stein - "On Pyramidal Exploitation and Equal Punishment" - IEEE Computer, June 1997.

"In times of change, it is the learners who will inherit the earth while the learned will find themselves beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists." - Unknown.

"Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse." - Winston Churchill

"Cobol is a very bad business programming language - but all the others are so much worse." - Robert Glass - "Cobol - A Contradiction and an Enigma" - Communications of the ACM, September 1997.

Beer Quotes:

"Light beer is an invention of the Prince of Darkness." - Inspector Morse (Colin Dexter).

"O' for a draught of vintage! That hath been cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth, tasting of flora and the county green... That I might drink, and leae the world unseen, and with thee fade away into forest dim." - John Keats

"It was as natural as eating and to me as necessary, and I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking...beer." - Ernest Hemingway.

"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy." - Benjamin Franklin.

"There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says 'Good people drink good beer'. Which is true, then as now. Just look around you in any public barroom and you will quickly see. Bad people drink bad beer. Think about it." - Hunter S. Thompson. (Quoted on bottles of Road Dog Scottish Ale.)

(Attributed to who said or sang them - not necessarily who wrote them.)

Notes:

Home Automation Page featured on "What's New on Yahoo - Wed June 18, 1997 .

Clan Buchanan Page Featured on "What's New on Yahoo - Mon July 14, 1997.