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Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide the lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as empty, meaningless, or dishonest, and scorn to use them. No matter how pure their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build. -- Bjarne Stroustrup
In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind. -- U Thant, Burmese UN Secretary General
Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them. -- Mother Teresa
You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest. -- Rowan Atkinson.