he who laughs when things go wrong
has just thought of someone he could blame it on.
 

-Benny Hill

In the later sixteenth century, the Roman Church worked to clean up its house"

-A History of World Societies

"On Earth Sir Lewis Sands cleared his throat.  A second and a half later he did so on the Moon."

-Arthur C. Clarke,  Rendezvous with Rama

"some things in life you have to do again
and again until you get bored"
 

"I thought up something when I went to go pee."
 
 

"this looks like a bunch of stuff"
 
 

thing = stuff - thing
 
 

"now all this stuff looks like garbage"
 

"These alternating series are pretty important creatures"
 

-Scott Williams, Professor of Mathematics, University at Buffalo