User:Basil Fawlty
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Personal information
Real Name: Alex Tievsky
Location: Washington, DC
Wikipedian since: May 2003
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Some favorite quotes
I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out
-David Sedaris
Les grandes personnes ne comprennent jamais rien toutes seules, et
c'est fatigant, pour les enfants, de toujours leur donner des explications.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
-Winston Churchill
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president; I'm beginning to believe it.
-Clarence Darrow
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
-William Shakespeare
I cannot prevent the French from being French.
-Charles de Gaulle
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
-Kurt Vonnegut
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
-Douglas Adams
Software: These programs give instruction to the CPU, which processes billions of tiny facts called bytes, and within a fraction of a second it sends you an error message that requires you to call the customer-support hot line and be placed on hold for approximately the life-span of a caribou
-Dave Barry
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
-Attributed to Winston Churchill