quotes at random, no. 5

[fiefoe]

[Dr. Knuth on tree selection sort:]
The Peter Principle applied to sorting. Everyone rises to their level of incompetence in the hierarchy.

[Chris wanted to be vaguely insulting to C2K:]
/* Your mother is a hampster and your father smells of elderberrys. */

Many historians believe that the term "pudding head" came from the colonial belief that if children learning to walk fell frequently and hit their heads, they could scramble their brains, making them like the consistency of pudding, thereby becoming "pudding heads."

Some of the shortages during that time entered the fabric of popular culture; the 1923 musical hit "Yes! We Have No Bananas" is said to have been written after songwriters Frank Silver and Irving Cohn were denied in an attempt to purchase their favorite fruit by a syntactically colorful, out-of-stock neighborhood grocer.

Pareidolia is a type of illusion or misperception involving a vague or obscure stimulus being perceived as something clear and distinct. For example, in the discolorations of a burnt tortilla one sees the face of Jesus Christ

The title "Much Ado About Nothing," Dr. McWhorter said, is a word play on "Much Ado About an O Thing,"

'frater, ave atque vale'

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