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Well, here I should have some smart thing to say about myself, and to the left there is supposed to be my picture. But I don’t have smart things to say—nor do I have a picture. so I had to come up with some idea. And I did. I hand-drew a picture†, which is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike me‡. Then I took a huge chunk of output from the unix fortune(6) program, to fill up space easily—and it’s witty, too. Here we go: The solution of problems is the most characteristic and peculiar sort of voluntary thinking. —William James
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—Henry Adams
—Esquire, O’Donnell’s Laws of Cartoon
Motion,
June 1980
I’m going to raise an issue and stick it in your ear. —John Foreman
†HAND-DREW
A PICTURE: Actually, I drew a few of them, and
picked the most
satisfactory one. The others that don’t completely
resemble me are
listed below:
‡ALMOST, BUT NOT QUITE, ENTIRELY UNLIKE... : From Douglas Adams, The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, where Arthur Dent found out that, upon request for tea, Nutri-Matic always made “...a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.” Um, I thought it’s cool to cite that. |