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A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

P. Erdos

Decaffeinated coffee?  Just Say No.

Unknown

As a leadership coach, one of the questions I always ask myself is, “Does this leader lead in a way that is compatible with humans?” or some version of that. People are designed to function with energy and use their gifts and talents to work toward fruitful outcomes. They do that from the moment they wake up in the morning until they lie down at night. From making the coffee to making computers, people have what it takes to get it done, if the right ingredients are present and the wrong ones are not. The leader’s job is to lead in ways such that people can do what they are best at doing: using their gifts and their brains to get great results.

Henry Cloud

Serving coffee on aircraft causes turbulence.

Unknown

>Coffee, which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.

ALEXANDER POPE. 1688-1744.     _The Rape of the Lock. Canto iii. Line 117._

sent him his list of dreamy-eyed ideals along with the birthday card she’d hand made with pressed flowers and a reminder to come home for the weekend to celebrate his milestone birthday. Thirty-five. Evan strode across the marble lobby leading to his law firm’s offices like a man in a hurry. In fact, he had ten minutes to spare before his next client meeting. A lot of people might use those minutes to grab a coffee, chat with a colleague or relax. Evan

Nancy Warren

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."

- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)

"Old age and treachery will beat youth and skill every time."

a coffee cup

...and my coffee is Blue Mountain and I drink it black, which is unusual for a teenage girl, but it's definitely the way good coffee should be drunk if you have any respect for the bitter beans.

Ruth Ozeki

Keer-ukso looked up at the sky in mock irritation. "No, do not ask me, best friend and busiess partner, if I want coffee?

Jennifer L. Holm

In America you can get tea, and coffee, and meat every day. But the only true America is that country where you are at liberty to pursue such a mode of life as may enable you to do without these.

_Thoreau._

"Plastic gun.  Ingenious.  More coffee, please."

The Phantom comics

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

Warren Beatty

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

Paul Erdos

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Abraham Lincoln

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

Albert Camus

Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

William (Bill) H. Gates

Five adults, a Leprechaun, a Dragon Prince, and two toddlers required a lot of French toast, but with Allie on one grill and Katie on the other, Graham beating the eggs, Charlie pouring juice, Auntie Gwen setting the table, Joe dealing with the coffee maker, and Jack watching the twins, breakfast got made.

Tanya Huff

A mathematician,” he liked to say, “is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.

Mason Currey

They’re both black. I don’t like to cut perfectly fine coffee with cream or sugar.

David Baldacci

I was thinking about the first time I ever saw you," he said, "and how after that I couldn't forget you. I wanted to, but I couldn't stop myself. I forced Hodge to let me be the one who came to find you and bring you back to the Institue. And even back then, in that stupid coffee shop, when I saw you sitting on that couch with Simon, even then that felt wrong to me-- I should have been the one sitting with you. The one who made you laugh like that. I couldn't get rid of that feeling. That it should have been me. And the more I knew you, the more I felt it--it had never been like that for me before. I'd always wanted a girl and then gotten to know her and not wanted her anymore, but with you the feeling just got stronger and stronger until that night when you showed up at Renwick's and I knew.

Cassandra Clare

Racine passera comme le cafe=--Racine will go out of fashion like coffee.

_Mme. de Sevigne._

Something better...

13 (sympathetic): Oh, What happened?  Did your parents lose a bet with God?

14 (complimentary): You must love the little birdies to give them this to

    perch on.

15 (scientific): Say, does that thing there influence the tides?

16 (obscure): Oh, I'd hate to see the grindstone.

17 (inquiry): When you stop to smell the flowers, are they afraid?

18 (french): Say, the pigs have refused to find any more truffles until you

    leave.

19 (pornographic): Finally, a man who can satisfy two women at once.

20 (religious): The Lord giveth and He just kept on giving, didn't He.

21 (disgusting): Say, who mows your nose hair?

22 (paranoid): Keep that guy away from my cocaine!

23 (aromatic): It must be wonderful to wake up in the morning and smell the

    coffee ... in Brazil.

24 (appreciative): Oooo, how original.  Most people just have their teeth

    capped.

25 (dirty): Your name wouldn't be Dick, would it?

        -- Steve Martin, "Roxanne"

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A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

        -- P. Erdos

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Drinking coffee for instant relaxation?  That's like drinking alcohol for

instant motor skills.

        -- Marc Price

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Put cats in the coffee and mice in the tea!

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What you end up with, after running an operating system concept through

these many marketing coffee filters, is something not unlike plain hot

water.

        -- Matt Welsh

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poisoned coffee, n.:

    Grounds for divorce.

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I put instant coffee in a microwave and almost went back in time.

        -- Steven Wright

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Lady Nancy Astor:

    "Winston, if you were my husband, I'd put poison in your coffee."

Winston Churchill:

    "Nancy, if you were my wife, I'd drink it."

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No, that's wrong too.  Now there's a race condition between the rm and

the mv.  Hmm, I need more coffee.

        -- Guy Maor on Debian Bug#25228

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    THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #13: SLOBOL

SLOBOL is best known for the speed, or lack of it, of its compiler.

Although many compilers allow you to take a coffee break while they

compile, SLOBOL compilers allow you to travel to Bolivia to pick the

>coffee.  Forty-three programmers are known to have died of boredom

sitting at their terminals while waiting for a SLOBOL program to

compile.  Weary SLOBOL programmers often turn to a related (but

infinitely faster) language, COCAINE.

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There's coffee in that nebula!

        -- Capt. Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager, "The Cloud"

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Gunter's Airborne Discoveries:

    (1)  When you are served a meal aboard an aircraft,

         the aircraft will encounter turbulence.

    (2)  The strength of the turbulence

         is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee.

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Waiter:    "Tea or coffee, gentlemen?"

1st customer: "I'll have tea."

2nd customer: "Me, too -- and be sure the glass is clean!"

    (Waiter exits, returns)

Waiter: "Two teas.  Which one asked for the clean glass?"

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<aav> coffee on an empty stomach is pretty nasy

<knghtbrd> aav: time to run to the vending machine for cheetos

<aav> cheetos? :)

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In the course of reading Hadamard's "The Psychology of Invention in the

Mathematical Field", I have come across evidence supporting a fact

which we coffee achievers have long appreciated:  no really creative,

intelligent thought is possible without a good cup of coffee.  On page

14, Hadamard is discussing Poincare's theory of fuchsian groups and

fuchsian functions, which he describes as "... one of his greatest

discoveries, the first which consecrated his glory ..."  Hadamard refers

to Poincare having had a "... sleepless night which initiated all that

memorable work ..." and gives the following, very revealing quote:

    "One evening, contrary to my custom, I drank black coffee and

    could not sleep.  Ideas rose in crowds;  I felt them collide

    until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable

    combination."

Too bad drinking black coffee was contrary to his custom.  Maybe he

could really have amounted to something as a coffee achiever.

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Living here in Rio, I have lots of coffees to choose from.  And when

you're on the lam like me, you appreciate a good cup of coffee.

        -- "Great Train Robber" Ronald Biggs' coffee commercial

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"Old age and treachery will beat youth and skill every time."

        -- a coffee cup

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In fact.. based on this model of what the NSA is and isn't... many of the

people reading this are members of the NSA... /. is afterall 'News for

Nerds'.

NSA MONDAY MORNING {at the coffee machine):

NSA AGENT 1: Hey guys, did you check out slashdot over the weekend?

    AGENT 2: No, I was installing Mandrake 6.1 and I coulnd't get the darn

             ppp connection up..

    AGENT 1: Well check it out... they're on to us.

        -- Chris Moyer <cdmoyer@starmail.com>

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Now that you've read Fortune's diet truths, you'll be prepared the next

time some housewife or boutique-owner-turned-diet-expert appears on TV

to plug her latest book.  And, if you still feel a twinge of guilt for

eating coffee cake while listening to her exhortations, ask yourself

the following questions:

    (1) Do I dare trust a person who actually considers alfalfa sprouts a

        food?

    (2) Was the author's sole motive in writing this book to get rich

        exploiting the forlorn hopes of chubby people like me?

    (3) Would a longer life be worthwhile if it had to be lived as

        prescribed ... without French-fried onion rings, pizza with

        double cheese, or the occasional Mai-Tai?  (Remember, living

        right doesn't really make you live longer, it just *seems* like

        longer.)

That, and another piece of coffee cake, should do the trick.

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Do not drink coffee in early A.M.  It will keep you awake until noon.

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Hit them biscuits with another touch of gravy,

Burn that sausage just a match or two more done.

Pour my black old coffee longer,

While that smell is gettin' stronger

A semi-meal ain't nuthin' much to want.

Loan me ten, I got a feelin' it'll save me,

With an ornery soul who don't shoot pool for fun,

If that coat'll fit you're wearin',

The Lord'll bless your sharin'

A semi-friend ain't nuthin' much to want.

And let me halfway fall in love,

For part of a lonely night,

With a semi-pretty woman in my arms.

Yes, I could halfway fall in deep--

Into a snugglin', lovin' heap,

With a semi-pretty woman in my arms.

        -- Elroy Blunt

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Household hint:

    If you are out of cream for your coffee, mayonnaise makes a

    dandy substitute.

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The early bird gets the coffee left over from the night before.

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Office Automation:

    The use of computers to improve efficiency in the office

    by removing anyone you would want to talk with over coffee.

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<Phase> no... I musn't have any more coffee !!! ;)

<Simunye> sure yu do Phase :)

<Phase> you really want me bouncing off the ceiling?

<Simunye> yesh :)

<kira_> bouncing off the ceiling is gewd

<Phase> ok, that was a silly question

<kira_> it's splatting on the floor that's the problem.

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Wake up and smell the coffee.

        -- Ann Landers

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"If you'll excuse me a minute, I'm going to have a cup of coffee."

- broadcast from Apollo 11's LEM, "Eagle", to Johnson Space Center, Houston

  July 20, 1969, 7:27 P.M.

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Q:    Why don't Scotsmen ever have coffee the way they like it?

A:    Well, they like it with two lumps of sugar.  If they drink

    it at home, they only take one, and if they drink it while

    visiting, they always take three.

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"What you end up with, after running an operating system concept through

these many marketing coffee filters, is something not unlike plain hot

water."

(By Matt Welsh)

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Tex SEX!  The HOME of WHEELS!  The dripping of COFFEE!!  Take me to

Minnesota but don't EMBARRASS me!!

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Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups --

alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.

        -- Alex Levine

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All this big deal about white collar crime -- what's WRONG with white collar

crime?  Who enjoys his job today?  You?  Me?  Anybody?  The only satisfying

part of any job is coffee break, lunch hour and quitting time.  Years ago

there was at least the hope of improvement -- eventual promotion -- more

important jobs to come.  Once you can be sold the myth that you may make

president of the company you'll hardly ever steal stamps.  But nobody

believes he's going to be president anymore.  The more people change jobs

the more they realize that there is a direct connection between working for

a living and total stupefying boredom.  So why NOT take revenge?  You're not

going to find ME knocking a guy because he pads an expense account and his

home stationery carries the company emblem.  Take away crime from the white

collar worker and you will rob him of his last vestige of job interest.

        -- J. Feiffer

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Decaffeinated coffee?  Just Say No.

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"Plastic gun.  Ingenious.  More coffee, please."

        -- The Phantom comics

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"No program is perfect,"

They said with a shrug.

"The customer's happy--

What's one little bug?"

But he was determined,            Then change two, then three more,

The others went home.            As year followed year.

He dug out the flow chart        And strangers would comment,

Deserted, alone.            "Is that guy still here?"

Night passed into morning.        He died at the console

The room was cluttered            Of hunger and thirst

With core dumps, source listings.    Next day he was buried

"I'm close," he muttered.        Face down, nine edge first.

Chain smoking, cold coffee,        And his wife through her tears

Logic, deduction.            Accepted his fate.

"I've got it!" he cried,        Said "He's not really gone,

"Just change one instruction."        He's just working late."

        -- The Perfect Programmer

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Two men were sitting over coffee, contemplating the nature of things,

with all due respect for their breakfast.  "I wonder why it is that

toast always falls on the buttered side," said one.

    "Tell me," replied his friend, "why you say such a thing.  Look

at this."  And he dropped his toast on the floor, where it landed on the

dry side.

    "So, what have you to say for your theory now?"

    "What am I to say?  You obviously buttered the wrong side."

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Lamonte Cranston once hired a new Chinese manservant.  While describing his

duties to the new man, Lamonte pointed to a bowl of candy on the coffee</p>

table and warned him that he was not to take any.  Some days later, the new

manservant was cleaning up, with no one at home, and decided to sample some

of the candy.  Just than, Cranston walked in, spied the manservant at the

candy, and said:

    "Pardon me Choy, is that the Shadow's nugate you chew?"

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inoculatte:

    To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

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Princeton's taste is sweet like a strawberry tart.  Harvard's is a subtle

taste, like whiskey, coffee, or tobacco.  It may even be a bad habit, for

all I know.

        -- Prof. J. H. Finley '25

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    The General disliked trying to explain the highly technical inner

workings of the U.S. Air Force.

    "$7,662 for a ten cup coffee maker, General?" the Senator asked.

    In his head he ran through his standard explanations.  "It's not so,"

he thought.  "It's a deterrent."  Soon he came up with, "It's computerized,

Senator.  Tiny computer chips make coffee that's smooth and full-bodied.  Try

a cup."

    The Senator did.  "Pfffttt!  Tastes like jet fuel!"

    "It's not so," the General thought.  "It's a deterrent."

    Then he remembered something.  "We bought a lot of untested computer

chips," the General answered.  "They got into everything.  Just a little

mix-up.  Nothing serious."

    Then he remembered something else.  It was at the site of the

mysterious B-1 crash.  A strange smell in the fuel lines.  It smelled like

>coffee.  Smooth and full bodied...

        -- Another Episode of General's Hospital

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* Endy needs to consult coffee :P

<Endy> coffee the bot person, not coffee the beverage :)

<knghtbrd> consulting the beverage may help too  =>

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Indiana is a state dedicated to basketball.  Basketball, soybeans, hogs and

basketball.  Berkeley, needless to say, is not nearly as athletic.  Berkeley

is dedicated to coffee, angst, potholes and coffee.

        -- Carolyn Jones

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Serving coffee on aircraft causes turbulence.

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Without coffee he could not work, or at least he could not have worked in the

way he did.  In addition to paper and pens, he took with him everywhere as an

indispensable article of equipment the coffee machine, which was no less

important to him than his table or his white robe.

        -- Stefan Zweigs, Biography of Balzac

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>Coffee is handed. The ladies, since the gentlemen entered, have become lively as larks; conversation waxes brisk and merry. Colonel Dent and Mr. Eshton argue on politics; their wives listen. The two proud dowagers, Lady Lynn and Lady Ingram, confabulate together. Sir George--whom, by-the-bye, I have forgotten to describe,--a very big, and very fresh-looking country gentleman, stands before their sofa, coffee- cup in hand, and occasionally puts in a word. Mr. Frederick Lynn has taken a seat beside Mary Ingram, and is showing her the engravings of a splendid volume: she looks, smiles now and then, but apparently says little. The tall and phlegmatic Lord Ingram leans with folded arms on the chair-back of the little and lively Amy Eshton; she glances up at him, and chatters like a wren: she likes him better than she does Mr. Rochester. Henry Lynn has taken possession of an ottoman at the feet of Louisa: Adele shares it with him: he is trying to talk French with her, and Louisa laughs at his blunders. With whom will Blanche Ingram pair? She is standing alone at the table, bending gracefully over an album. She seems waiting to be sought; but she will not wait too long: she herself selects a mate.

Charlotte Bronte     Jane Eyre

Faces are as paper money, for which, on demand, there frequently proves to be no gold in the coffer.

_F. G. Trafford._

"Yes," answered Alyosha, who had in truth only eaten a piece of bread and drunk a glass of kvas in the Father Superior's kitchen. "Though I should be pleased to have some hot coffee."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky     The Brothers Karamazov

After Mass, when they had finished their coffee in the dining room where the loose covers had been removed from the furniture, a servant announced that the carriage was ready, and Marya Dmitrievna rose with a stern air. She wore her holiday shawl, in which she paid calls, and announced that she was going to see Prince Nicholas Bolkonski to have an explanation with him about Natasha.

Leo Tolstoy     War and Peace

The gentlemen came; and she thought he looked as if he would have answered her hopes; but, alas! the ladies had crowded round the table, where Miss Bennet was making tea, and Elizabeth pouring out the coffee, in so close a confederacy that there was not a single vacancy near her which would admit of a chair. And on the gentlemen's approaching, one of the girls moved closer to her than ever, and said, in a whisper:

Jane Austen     Pride and Prejudice

So long as a servant was present, no other words passed between them. When coffee had been served and they were alone together, the nephew, looking at the uncle and meeting the eyes of the face that was like a fine mask, opened a conversation.

Charles Dickens     A Tale of Two Cities

After dinner they went to drink coffee in Napoleon's study, which four days previously had been that of the Emperor Alexander. Napoleon sat down, toying with his Sevres coffee cup, and motioned Balashev to a chair beside him.

Leo Tolstoy     War and Peace

"Now I recollect," said the afflicted old father; "my poor boy told me yesterday he had got a small case of coffee, and another of tobacco for me!"

Alexandre Dumas, Pere     The Count of Monte Cristo

Next morning when the valet came into the room with his coffee, Pierre was lying asleep on the ottoman with an open book in his hand.

Leo Tolstoy     War and Peace

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