QuotablePerson.java

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package pkg1;

/**
 * Some people we love to quote.
 */
public enum QuotablePerson {

    /** "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes." */
    Thoreau,

    /**
     * "A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for
     * insight and understanding."
     */
    McLuhan,

    /**
     * "If they can keep you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to
     * worry about the answers."
     */
    Pynchon,

    /**
     * "For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, elegant,
     * and wrong."
     */
    Mencken,

    /**
     * "Formerly unsolvable equations are dealt with by threats of reprisals."
     */
    Allen,

    /** "It is not enough to succeed.  Others must fail." */
    Vidal,

    /** "Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem." */
    Occam,

    /**
     * "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it
     * flips over, pinning you underneath.  At night, the ice weasels come."
     */
    Groening,

    /** "Sed Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" */
    Juvenal,

    /**
     * "The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful
     * than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis."
     */
    Eco
}