"We are symbols, and inhabit symbols. 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson"

"
Give me a wild tie brother, 
One with a cosmic urge, 
A tie that will swear and rip and tear, 
When it sees my old blue serge. 
- Stoddard King, The Ties That Bind "



"I'd rather write programs to write programs than write programs. 
- Programming Pearls, Communications of the ACM, Sept. 1985 "