Another Pitch

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Newt Gingrich is living proof that you can acquire a reputation as a man of ideas merely by insisting with sufficient repetitiveness that you care deeply about ideas. (It helps to occasionally cite some semi-obscure author as a seminal influence. Actually understanding said author is unnecessary.)
-- Jonathan Chait

I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup

There are only two things in the world -- nothing and semantics.
-- Werner Erhard

Computers drop in value quicker than anything except milk.
-- Lincoln Spector

More quotes here.