Fashion and Appearance
“Clothes are the lowest priority for an engineer, assuming the basic thresholds for temperature and decency have been satisfied. If no appendages are freezing or sticking together, and if no genitalia or mammary glands are swinging around in plain view, then the objective of clothing has been met. Anything else is a waste.” • Scott Adams, Author of Dilbert comic strip
Walking
“Walking requires a complex series of interactions between most of the bones, muscles, tendons and joints of the trunk and lower limbs. These interactions result in relocations of body mass that sequentially and repetitively destabilize and restablize the body’s axial balance while realigning its structural support. Properly coordinated by the nervous system, the net effect of these interactions is to maintain the body’s upright posture while moving it forward in space.” • George Cole, Backpacking Light Magazine
Means No!
“I am disinclined to acquiesce to your request” • Hector Barbossa
Stinky Creek, No Paddle
“It appears that you have ascended a bile infested tributary in a native American watercraft without any obvious means of propulsion.” • Sheldon Cooper in ‘The Big Bang Theory’
Binary
“There are ten kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary, and those that don’t. • Sheldon Cooper in ‘The Big Bang Theory’
Punctus Interrogatius
“Say What?”
Reached An Understanding
“I understood, until you explained it to me.” • Carl Sandberg