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| #10600 | | This isn't true in practice -- what we've missed out is Stradivarius's
constant. And then the aside: "For those of you who don't know, that's
been called by others the fiddle factor..."
-- From a 1B Electrical Engineering lecture.
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| #10601 | | This place just isn't big enough for all of us. We've got to find a way
off this planet.
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| #10602 | | This universe shipped by weight, not by volume. Some expansion of the
contents may have occurred during shipment.
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| #10603 | | This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living, and hard
dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft,
pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody admitted it.
-- Alfred Bester, "The Stars My Destination"
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| #10604 | | Those who can, do; those who can't, simulate.
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| #10605 | | Those who can, do; those who can't, write.
Those who can't write work for the Bell Labs Record.
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| #10606 | | ... though his invention worked superbly -- his theory was a crock of sewage
from beginning to end.
-- Vernor Vinge, "The Peace War"
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| #10607 | | Three great scientific theories of the structure of the universe are the
molecular, the corpuscular and the atomic. A fourth affirms, with
Haeckel, the condensation or precipitation of matter from ether -- whose
existence is proved by the condensation or precipitation ... A fifth
theory is held by idiots, but it is doubtful if they know any more about
the matter than the others.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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| #10608 | | Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know
what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
-- Bertrand Russell
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| #10609 | | Time is an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space.
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