Benjamin Collins


Texas A&M University
College of Engineering
Department of Computer Science
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Anonymous friend

Being professional is being professional when everyone else around you isn't.

Hatzofeh, an Israeli newspaper

It is as though the French foreign minister were to meet (American) Indian chiefs who claimed to have been dispossessed of their land, and who were now getting organized with money provided by the Cuban ruler Fidel Castro.
-- editorial comment on Powell's meeting with supporters of the "Geneva Accord"

Benjamin Franklin

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb protesting the vote.

Anonymous Coward, slashdot.org

The Internet is a medium, being neither rare nor well done. -- comment #7018310

When God divides by zero, it damn well divides, physics be damned.
(Hence black holes)

Rev. Steven R. Randall of St. Timothy's Church in Catonsville, Md.

The gay issue is not the real issue, the real issue is: Does the Bible mean what it says, or can you make it mean whatever you want? -- from this article

Rush Limbaugh

As far as the liberals are concerned, the objective is power. More and more people must become reliant on the government, whether they like it or not, and fewer and fewer people must be compelled to pay for it, whether they like it or not. And slowly but surely what you do here - you wipe out the middle class, you replace it with an elite which exercises control over the many. The middle class is wiped out with a combination of carrots, which increases reliance on big government programs, and smothering tax and regulatory schemes, which destroy enterprise, prosperity, and liberty. So no matter how many white papers or briefing papers or arguments that are amassed to prove the wrong-headedness of a new entitlement program, they fall on deaf ears on the left because the left's goal is not to run an efficient bureaucracy that serves the public. That's what they want you to believe; that's how they market their agenda. Their goal has nothing to do with the efficient or the just delivery of services. It is about control and about power. -- from rushlimbaugh.com

Lady Thatcher

Eventually, socialists run out of other people's money. -- from margaretthatcher.org

Julia Gorin

Connoisseurship is indeed a brilliant cloak for depravity: Don a lofty external disguise to mask a degraded internal character. -- in an astute article on the French.

Charles Krauthammer

If you look at where we are today and compare it to where we were on the day the Clinton Administration left office: we've removed the Taliban from power in Afghanistan; we've removed from power Saddam Hussein; we're removing our troops from Saudi Arabia; we've established new bases in the Gulf in stable, small countries; Jordan is secure; Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon are acquiescent and very quiet; and there's a revolution under way in Iran. I've named every country between Afghanistan and the Mediterranean. This is the most dangerous, hostile region in the world -- and it has been remarkably changed. And I should add there's also a peace process in the Middle East. -- "Inside Washington" 7/12/2003

Evan Coyne Maloney

Saddam and Osama must not exist. Why? Because they cannot be found. And, as we all know from witnessing the recent hyperventilation about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, if something can't be found, it must not exist. -- brain-terminal.com

Al Sharpton

The Democrats shouldn't be talking about getting more blacks in high places, but instead getting the right blacks in high places. If we doubt that, just look at Clarence Thomas. Clarence Thomas is my color, but he's not my kind. -- random article, probably from drudgereport.com

Ronald Reagan

The Democrats may remember their lines, but how quickly they forget the lessons of the past. I have witnessed five major wars in my lifetime, and I know how swiftly storm clouds can gather on a peaceful horizon. The next time a Saddam Hussein takes over Kuwait or North Korea brandishes a nuclear weapon, will we be ready to respond? In the end it all comes down to leadership, and that's what this country is looking for now -- from Reagan's 83rd birthday celebration