Java Zen:Thinking Out Loud Thursday, 2024.03.28
This sad little lizard told me that he was a brontosaurus on his mother's side.
I did not laugh; people who boast of ancestry often have little else to sustain
them. Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which
happiness is always in short supply.

		Robert Heinlein, "Time Enough For Love"