Has everyone noticed that all the letters of the word database are typed with the left hand? Now the layout of the QWERTY typewriter keyboard was designed, among other things, to facilitate the even use of both hands. It follows, therefore, that writing about databases is not only unnatural, but a lot harder than it appears. (Anonymous)

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations. They think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little, altering this bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building. (Robert Collier)

TABLE : An arrangement of words, numbers, or signs, or combinations of them, as in parallel columns, to exhibit a set of facts or relations in a definite, compact, and comprehensive form; a synopsis or scheme. (Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language)

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass)

Pooh was sitting in his house one day, counting his pots of honey, when there came a knock on the door. “Fourteen,” said Pooh. “Come in. Fourteen. Or was it fifteen? Bother. That’s muddled me.” “Hallo, Pooh,” said Rabbit. “Hallo, Rabbit. Fourteen, wasn’t it?” “What was?” “My pots of honey what I was counting.” “Fourteen, that’s right.” “Are you sure?” “No,” said Rabbit. “Does it matter?” (A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner)

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King’s horses and all the King’s men could not put Humpty together again. (Old nursery rhyme)

For ‘Is’ and ‘Is-Not’ though with Rule and Line, and ‘Up-and-Down’ by Logic I define, of all that one should care to fathom, I was never deep in anything but - Wine. (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Traslated by Edward Fitzgerald)