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Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
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One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail.

Yaacov perrin

— Rabbi Yaacov Perrin, as quoted in "West Bank massacre: Israel Orders Tough Measures Against Militant Settlers", The New York Times (27 February 1994).

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Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.


— Larry Wall, "Wherefore Art, Thou?", The Perl Journal 1(1); reprinted in Linux Journal, March 1, 1997

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The differences between minds might be... like the differences between languages, or styles of music or art inexhaustible in the limit, but approachable to any degree of approximation you like. But the difference between having a mind and not having a mind at all being something with its own subjective point of view and being something that is all outside and no inside, like a rock or a discarded sliver of fingernail is apparently an all-or-nothing difference.


— Daniel C. Dennett, ibid., Kinds Of Minds...

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Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold , they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman ... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.


— Andreas Capellanus, in A father: The leader of every home, 15 June 2013 Nigeria world

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