Pro hac vice=--For this turn; on this occasion.
Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious animal on earth.
If entropy is increasing, where is it coming from?
If brute force doesn't solve your problems, then you aren't using enough.
Veni, Creator Spiritus=--Come, Creator Spirit.
Conseil d'etat=--Council of state.
Permissu superiorum=--By permission of the superiors.
Qualis avis, talis cantus; qualis vir, talis oratio=--As is the bird, so is its song; as is the man, so is his manner of speech.
Locum tenens=--A deputy or substitute.
Et sic de similibus=--And so of the like.
No one is so accursed by fate, No one so utterly desolate, But some heart, though unknown, Responds unto his own.
Vide ut supra=--See preceding statement.
Never trust anyone who says money is no object.
Just because he's dead is no reason to lay off work.
The uttered part of a man's life bears to the unuttered, unconscious part of it a small unknown proportion; he himself never knows it, much less do others.
Man sieht sich, lernt sich kennen, / Liebt sich, muss sich trennen=--We greet each other, learn to know each other, love each other, and then--we part.
Contra bonos mores=--Against good morals.
Put no trust in cryptic comments.
Money is the root of all wealth.
Contraria contrariis curantur=--Contraries are cured by contraries.
Fons malorum=--The origin of evil.
1 Sagan = Billions & Billions
Anguis in herba=--A snake in the grass.
Proprio vigore=--Of one's own strength.
Dii penates=--Household gods.
Ab actu ad posse valet illatio=--From what has happened we may infer what may happen.
Dead? No excuse for laying off work.
For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!
Magna est veritas et pr?valebit=--Truth is mighty, and will in the end prevail.
How many Bavarian Illuminati does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Obscurum per obscurius=--Explaining something obscure by what is more obscure.
E contra=--On the other hand.
Ipsissima verba=--The exact words.
Lettres de cachet=--Warrants of imprisonment under royal seal, liberally issued in France before the Revolution.
Verbi causa=, _or_ =gratia=--For example; for instance.
Knowledge is escape from one's self.= (?)
There is no time like the present for postponing what you ought to be doing.
On the eighth day, God created FORTRAN.
Solitude is the despair of fools, the torment of the wicked, and the joy of the good.= (?)
Il fut historien pour rester orateur=--He turned historian that he might still play the orator.
Ventis secundis=--With a fair wind.
Nomen atque omen=--A name and at the same time an omen. _Plaut._ [Greek: Nomiz' adelphous tous alethinous philous]--Count true friends as brothers.
Writing software is more fun than working.
Son genre n'est pas le plus grand, mais elle est la plus grande dans son genre=--Its kind is not the greatest, but it is the greatest of its kind. (?).
Money cannot buy love, nor even friendship.
Ad libitum=--At pleasure.
Pavore carent qui nihil commiserunt; at p?nam semper ob oculos versari putant qui peccarunt=--The innocent are free from fear; but the guilty have always the dread of punishment before their eyes.
Te hominem esse memento=--Remember thou art a man.
How much net work could a network work, if a network could net work?
When one must, one can.
Plus in posse quam in actu=--More in possibility than actuality.
Juris utriusque doctor=--Doctor of both laws, civil and canon.
Evolution is God's way of issuing upgrades.
La grande nation=--The great nation. _Napoleon when General Bonaparte, of France._
Grave paupertas malum est, et intolerabile, qu? magnum domat populum=--The poverty which oppresses a great people is a grievous and intolerable evil.
Falsehood borders so closely upon truth, that a wise man should not trust himself too near the precipice.= (?)
Il rit bien qui rit le dernier=--He laughs with reason who laughs the last.
Ubicunque ars ostentatur, veritas abesse videtur=--Wherever there is a display of art, truth seems to us to be wanting.
Tempi passati!=--Bygone times! _Joseph II. at sight of a picture representing a predecessor doing penance to the Pope._
CChheecckk yyoouurr dduupplleexx sswwiittcchh..
Bell Labs Unix -- Reach out and grep someone.
I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder. ― Steven Wright
A latere=--From the side of (sc. the Pope).
Your computer account is overdrawn. Please reauthorize.
Acti labores jucundi=--The remembrance of past labours is pleasant.
Mult? terricolis lingu?, c?lestibus una=--The inhabitants of earth have many tongues, those of heaven have but one.
God made machine language; all the rest is the work of man.
Toils of empires pleasures are.= _Waller._ [Greek: to kalon]--The beautiful.
Got Mole problems? Call Avogadro at 6.02 x 10
Remember the good old days, when CPU was singular?
The best laid plans of mice and men are held up in the legal department.
Et hoc genus omne=--And everything of this kind.
Une grande ame est au-dessus de l'injustice, de la douleur, de la moquerie; et elle seroit invulnerable si elle ne souffroit par la compassion=--A great soul is proof against injustice, pain, and mockery; and it would be invulnerable if it were not open to compassion.
De pr?scientia Dei=--Of the foreknowledge of God.
When once you profess yourself a friend, endeavour to be always such. He can never have any true friends that will be often changing them.= (?)
If you fail to plan, plan to fail.
Les cartes sont brouillees=--A fierce dissension has arisen (_lit._ the cards are mixed).
Quantity is no substitute for quality, but its the only one we've got.
A verbis ad verbera=--From words to blows.
Uberrima fides=--The fullest confidence; implicit faith.
A hacker does for love what others would not do for money.
Hortus siccus=--A dry garden; a collection of dried plants.
Novus homo=--A new man; a man risen from obscurity.
Tua res agitur=--It is a matter that concerns you.
Mentis penetralia=--The inmost recesses of the mind; the secrets of the heart.
Anything cut to length will be too short.
This screen intentionally left blank.
Not a flower, not a flower sweet, / On my black coffin let there be strewn; / Not a friend, not a friend greet / My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown; / A thousand, thousand sighs to save, / Lay me (what you will) O where / Sad lover ne'er find my grave, / To weep there.= (?)
People who go to conferences are the ones who shouldn't.
Eo instanti=--At that instant.
Plura faciunt homines e consuetudine quam e ratione=--Men do more things from custom than from reason.
Sine die=--Without appointing a day.
Legatus a latere=--An extraordinary Papal ambassador.
Dramatis person?=--Characters represented.
Time sharing: The use of many people by the computer.
To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so.
E tardegradis asinis equus non prodiit=--The horse is not the progeny of the slow-paced ass.
2.4 statute miles of surgical tubing at Yale U. = 1 I.V.League
Never trust a computer you can't repair yourself.
Cacoethes loquendi=--An itch for talking.
An dives sit omnes qu?runt, nemo an bonus=--Every one inquires if he is rich; no one asks if he is good.
What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife. ― Rodney Dangerfield
Argumentum ad ignorantiam=--An argument founded on the ignorance of an adversary.
If I want your opinion, I'll ask you to fill out the necessary form.
Lege totum si vis scire totum=--Read the whole if you wish to know the whole.
Cita mors ruit=--Death is a swift rider.
Spolia opima=--The richest of the spoil.
Pari ratione=--By parity of reason.
Minor est quam servus, dominus qui servos timet=--A master who fears his servants is lower than a servant.
Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.
The man who cannot sometimes endure his own company must have a bad heart or a deficient intellect.= (?)
Spes bona dat vires, animum quoque spes bona firmat; / Vivere spe vidi qui moriturus erat=--Good hope gives strength, good hope also confirms resolution; him who was on the point of death, I have seen revive by hope.
Rien ne manque a sa gloire; il manquait a la notre=--Nothing is wanting to his glory; he was wanting to ours. _Inscription on the bust of Moliere, which was placed in the Academy in_ 1773.
Fortiter in re, suaviter in modo=--Vigorous and resolute in deed, gentle in manner.
A fin=--To the end.
I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.= (?)
Quid c?co cum speculo?=--What has a blind man to do with a mirror?
Bona fide=--In good faith; in reality.
Editiones expurgat?=--Editions with objectionable passages eliminated.
Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.
The light of a hundred stars does not equal the light of the moon.
Pons asinorum=--The asses' bridge. _The Fifth Proposition in the First Book of Euclid._
Bellum internecinum=--A war of extermination.
Tabula ex= _or_ =in naufragio=--A plank in a shipwreck; a last shift.
I like work; it fascinates me; I can sit and look at it for hours.
Uncompensated overtime? Just Say No.
Hactenus=--Thus far.
Medium tenuere beati!=--Happy they who steadily pursue a middle course.
Cato contra mundum=--Cato against the world.
Ille vir, haud magna cum re, sed plenus fidei=--He is a man, not of large fortune, but full of good faith.
Probatum est=--It has been settled.
Ohne Haut=--Without a skin.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit.= (?)
We all like praise, but a hike in our pay is the best kind of ways.
The program isn't debugged until the last user is dead.
Cunctis servatorem liberatoremque acclamantibus=--All hailing him as saviour and deliverer.
The longer the title, the less important the job.
Crux criticorum=--The puzzle of critics.
The good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.= (?)
BASIC is the Computer Science equivalent of `Scientific Creationism'.
Ab extra=--From without.
Be sociable. Speak to the person next to you in the unemployment line tomorrow.
If you have to ask how much it is, you can't afford it.
Remember Darwin; building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
Universus mundus exercet histrioniam=--All the world practises the player's art.
Serving coffee on aircraft causes turbulence.
Opprobrium medicorum=--The disgrace of physicians. _Said of diseases that defy their skill, especially cancer._
"It's ten o'clock... Do you know where your AI programs are?" -- Peter Oakley
"We shall fight in the shade."= _Leonidas, to the threat of the Persians that their forest of arrows would darken the sun._
Amicus curi?=--A friend to the court, _i.e._, an uninterested adviser in a case.
Non aqua, sed ruina=--Not with water, but with ruin.
In pleno=--In full.
All syllogisms have three parts, therefore this is not a syllogism.
Deo volente=--With God's will.
Dominus vobiscum, et cum spiritu tuo=--The Lord be with you, and with thy spirit.
Pro tempore=--For the time.
Two percent of zero is almost nothing.
Vox audita perit, litera scripta manet=--The word that is heard perishes, the letter that is written remains.
Ausus est vana contemnere=--He dared to scorn vain fears.
There is no man on the streets whose biography I would not like to be acquainted with.= (?)
Pro aris et focis=--For our altars and our hearths.
"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
Dulce est miseris socios habuisse doloris=--It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misfortune.
Save the whales. Collect the whole set.
To err is human, to moo bovine.
You mean you didn't *know* she was off making lots of little phone companies?
In ?ternum=--For ever.
Aureo piscari hamo=--To fish with a golden hook.
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
Lass deine Zunge nie das Amt des Schwertes fuhren=--Never let thy tongue do the work of the sword. (?)
In statu quo=--In the state in which it was.
To thine own self be true. (If not that, at least make some money.)
A fortiori=--With stronger reason.
No man is an island if he's on at least one mailing list.
The world will end in 5 minutes. Please log out.
Bibula charta=--Blotting-paper.
Suffering is the mother of fools, reason of wise men.= (?)
Otium cum dignitate=--Leisure with dignity.
Practice in time becomes second nature.
On respecte un moulin, on vole une province!=--They (obliged by law) spare a mill, but steal a province!
Nulli secundus=--Second to none.
It is a universal weakness of human nature to have an inordinate faith in things unseen and unknown, and to be affected unduly by them.
For thee the family of man has no use; it rejects thee; thou art wholly as a dissevered limb: so be it; perhaps it is better so.= _Carlyle, or Teufelsdrockh rather, arrived at the "Centre of Indifference, through which whoso travels from the Negative Pole to the Positive must necessarily pass."_
De hoc multi multa, omnes aliquid, nemo satis=--Of this many have said many things, all something, no one enough.
365 Days of drinking Lo-Cal beer. = 1 Lite-year
What the gods would destroy they first submit to an IEEE standards committee.
Sit tibi terra levis=--May earth lie light upon thee.
Avoid strange women and temporary variables.
The world is coming to an end--save your buffers!
1: No code table for op: ++post
Vergebens dass ihr ringums wissenschaftlich schweift, / Ein jeder lernt nur was er lernen kann!=--In vain that ye go ranging round about in your scientific, or learned, inquiries; each one learns only what he can. _Mephisto, to the scholar in Goethe's "Faust."_
Conscience is the compass of the unknown.
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Veritas temporis filia=--Truth is the daughter of Time.
No user-servicable parts inside. Refer to qualified service personnel.
Recent investments will yield a slight profit.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety- seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is. ― Ellen DeGeneres
Quod vide= (or =videas=)--Which see.
On ne ramene guere un traitre par l'impunite, au lieu que par la punition l'on en rend mille autres sages=--No one ever reclaimed a traitor by letting him off, whereas punishment may keep thousands in the right way. (?)
Go you and try a democracy in your own house.= _Lycurgus, to one who asked why he had not instituted a democracy._
Hiatus maxime deflendus=--A deficiency or blank very much to be deplored.
No man perhaps suspects how large and important the region of unconsciousness in him is; what a vast, unknown territory lies there back of his conscious will and purpose, and which is really the controlling power of his life.
Standing in the presence of the Unknown, all have the same right to think, and all are equally interested in the great questions of origin and destiny. All I claim, all I plead for, is liberty of thought and expression. That is all. I do not pretend to tell what is absolutely true, but what I think is true. I do not pretend to tell all the truth. I do not claim that I have floated level with the heights of thought, or that I have descended to the very depths of things. I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me is an intellectual thief and robber. That is all.
I can tell if two people are in love by how they hold each other’s hands, and how thick their sanitation gloves are. ― Jarod Kintz
If God is perfect, why did He create discontinuous functions?
Veluti in speculum=--As if in a mirror.
Ditissimus agris=--An extensive landed proprietor.
Everybody wants to go to heaven; but nobody wants to die.
Do you guys know what you're doing, or are you just hacking?
Corpus Christi=--Festival in honour of the Eucharist or body of Christ.
Orate pro anima=--Pray for the soul of.
Utrum horum mavis accipe=--Take which you prefer.
Nothing is finished until the paperwork is done.
Vade retro!=--Avaunt!
Noli me tangere=--Touch me not.
Fecit=--He did it.
Secundo amne defluit=--He floats with the stream.
When I am dead let fire destroy the world; It matters not to me, for I am safe.
Make it right before you make it faster.
De novo=--Anew.
Currente calamo=--With a running pen.
Ex delicto=--From the crime.
Even bytes get lonely for a little bit.
I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her. ― Rodney Dangerfield
Ingeniorum cos ?mulatio=--Rivalry is the whetstone of talent.
There are three ways in which a man becomes a slave. He may be born into slavery, or forced into it, or he can deliberately accept his servitude. All three forms flourish in the modern world. Men are born and forced into slavery in Russia and her satellites states. Men in the free world invite slavery when they ask the government to provide complete security, when they surrender their freedom to the “Welfare State.” The slave states of Western world are an outgrowth of monopolistic capitalism — an economic system which is opposed to the wide distribution of private property in many hands. Instead, monopolistic capitalism concentrates productive wealth among a few men, allowing the rest to become a vast proletariat. Some representatives of monopolistic capitalism, sensing this evil in their system, have tried to silence criticism by pointing to the diffused ownership in the great corporations. They advertise, “No one owns more than 4 percent of the stock of this great company.” Or they print lists of stockholders, showing that these include farmers, schoolteachers, baseball players, taxi drivers, and even babies. But there is a catch to this argument, and it is this: although it is true that individuals of small means own shares in the company, it is not true that they run the company. Their responsibility for its policies is nil. Possession properly has two faces, two aspects: we all have a right to private property, but this is accompanied by our responsibility for its righteous use. These two things (which should be inseparable) are frequently divided today. Everyone admits that the farmer who own a horse is obligated to feed and care for it, but in the case of stocks and bonds, we often forget that the same principle should prevail. Monopolistic capitalism is to blame for this; it sunders the right to own property from responsibility that owning property involves. Those who own only a few stocks have no practical control of any industry. They vote by postcard proxy, but they have rarely even seen “their” company. The two elements which ought to be inextricably joined in any true conception of private property — ownership and responsibility — are separated. Those who own do not manage; those who manage; those who manage and work do not control or own. The workmen in a factory may have a shadowy, unknown absentee “employer” — the thousands of individual owners of stock — whom “management” represents and tries to please by extra dividends. The workman’s livelihood is at the disposition of strangers who make a single demand of their representatives: higher profits. Faced with such insecurity, labor unions seek a solution in demands for higher wages, shorter hours, pensions, and such things. But this approach takes monopolistic capitalism for granted, and accepts the unnatural division between property and responsibility as permanent. A much more radical solution is apt to come, and this may take either of two forms. One way of remedying the situation would be through a profound alternative of our political and economic life, with the aim of distributing the means of production more widely by giving every workman a share in profits, management, and ownership, all three. The other alternative which is not a constructive solution is confiscation: this may take the violent form of communism, or the less noticeable form of bureaucratic encroachment through taxation, as favored by the welfare state. [and/or outright confiscation likened to General Motors, AIG, and Banks, etc. etc. etc.] Confiscation in any form is an unhealthy solution for a real disease. It amounts to telling men that because they are economically crippled, they must abandon all efforts to get well and allow the state to provide them with free wheelchairs. The denial of the right of ownership to a man is a denial of his basic freedom: freedom without property is always incomplete. To be “secured” — but with no accompanying responsibility – is to be the slave of whatever group provides the security. A democracy flirts with the danger of becoming a slave in direct ratio to the numbers of its citizens who work, but do not own / or who own, but do not work; or who distribute, as politicians do, but do not produce. The danger of the “slave state” disappears in ratio to the numbers of people who own property and admit its attendant responsibilities under God. They can call their souls their own because they own and administer something other than their souls. Thus they are free. [“New Slavery: Freedom without Property is Incomplete,” originally published in On Being Human: Reflections, On Life and Living , New York: Doubleday & Co., 1982.]
Don't be irreplaceable, if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
Bonus vir semper tiro=--A good man is always a learner.
Absque argento omnia vana=--Without money all is vain.
Noscitur a sociis=--A man is known by the company he keeps; a word, by the context.
Caput mundi=--The head of the world, _i.e._, Rome, both ancient and modern.
Disce pati=--Learn to endure.
Velis et remis=--With sails and oars.
After a number of decimal places, nobody gives a damn.
A man cannot be in the seventeenth century and the nineteenth at one and the same moment.= _Carlyle's experience while editing Cromwell's Letters._
As of next week, passwords will be entered in Morse code.
Inter malleum et incudem=--Between the hammer and the anvil.
Ut supra=--As mentioned above.
De lunatico inquirendo=--To inquire into a man's state of mind.
Vi et armis=--By force and arms; by main force.
Multum in parvo=--Much in little.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. — H. L. Mencken
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty. — Norm Crosby
Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.
Human beings were created by water to transport it uphill.
If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us. — Anon
Dii majores et minores=--Gods of a higher and lower degree.
Arbiter elegantiarum=--The arbitrator of elegances; the master of the ceremonies.
Every nonzero finite dimensional inner product space has an orthonormal basis.
Tantum vertice in auras / Aetherias quantum radice in Tartara tendit=--Its summit stretches as far into the upper ether as its root into the nether deep.
Don't compare floating point numbers solely for equality.
Terra incognita=--An