«In the beginning, was the Word»
-Genesis 1:1

«What is past is prologue; study the past.»
-Anon.

origins (absolute elsewhere)

«I have seen the future
And brother let me tell you, it is murder»
-Leonard Cohen

Sci Fi (re-runs)

flush (2001; HAL)

Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey)

«O was an oyster
who lived in his shell
When people left him alone
he felt perfectly well.»
-Edward Lear

«If one man asks another what a Hacker is
And the other man answers him,
Neither of them knows it.»
-Zen proverb

Knuth (The Art of Computer Programming)

«No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.»
-Oscar Wilde

«The real artist has no pride.»
-LvB

«All art is useless.»
- Oscar Wilde

art (as beads: still life)

«Things that are fun are intrinsically worth doing; you don't have to justify doing them.»
-Alan Kay

winning (is everything)

«Prometheus, teacher in every art, brought the fire that gave to mortals, a means to mighty ends»
-Aeschylus

van Hoff, et. al (Hooked On Java ; addiction to)

«People make a mistake who think that my art has come easily to me...There is not a famous master whose music I have not studied over and over. »
-W.A.Mozart

xabacus (big deal: tenuous UUCP link)

preservation (in the beginning...)

lock (securely)

current 1.13 (beta)

«So maybe I will never reach that wonderful time of wisdom and maturity when I know the answers to all the questions that continue to worry me. But maybe just to go on asking them is enough.»
-Frederik Pohl, The Annals of the Heechee

60 penguins:

• Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, J. M. Barrie
• The Wife of Bath and Other Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
• Lamb to the Slaughter and other Stories, Roald Dahl
• The Overcoat and The Nose, Nikolai Gogol
• Aesop's Fables, V. S. Vernon Jones (trans)
• Truckstop and Other Lake Woebegone Stories, Garrison Keillor
• Bartleby and the Lightning-rod Man, Herman Melville