• My grandfather liked to save things, and had jars full of nails and washers and pencil stubs cluttering up his basement, but everyone's favorite jar was the one labelled "Pieces of string too short to use", a good title for this blog entry.
• The U.S. Coast Guard is called by some the "Hooligan Navy".
• It took the Catholic Church 100 years to figure out that books were dangerous: they banned Copernicus's heliocentric view of the universe 100 years after the printing press was invented.
• We're always quoting Alan Kay, who said "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." When asked what is the best book to read about computer systems, Kay recommends they read the U.S. Constitution because it has created a system affecting millions of people for hundreds of years.

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