dennis scharnberg

brutality of smiling

We cannot begin to see what science is until we appreciate how shallow it is.

Godfrey Daniel,  Inspecting the Time Domain.

tread on me

“Who’s afraid of wolves?” laughed Raymond.  “Who’s afraid of an exponential curve?  Who’s afraid?”

Giles Coxe-Coburn,  Belief in Insects.

sounding the deck

“The people who think that they are producing literature [today] are not completely wrong.  What they write does mimic literature—sometimes almost impressively.”

Rollin Mungo,  Selected Rants of Mr. Barraclough.

rain or shine

The Nihilist, you see, rarely has a good plan for posterity.

Palmer Dove,  The Edwardian Moment.

full speed ahead

It is impossible to control matters that we refuse to control.

Titus Musgrave,  Carthago Delenda Est.

not being lost

Better dead than read.

Terence Theodore,  Proverbs for a New Era.

happily ever after

In so many of the trigonometric expressions, an irrational number is lurking.

Dalton Beggs,  Decision Under Uncertainty.