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    Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.

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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.

This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.

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Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?

Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?

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That's the nature of researchyou don't know what in hell you're doing. -'Doc' Edgerton.

That's the nature of researchyou don't know what in hell you're doing. -'Doc' Edgerton.

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Thinking is the hardest work there is. Which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.

Thinking is the hardest work there is. Which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.

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Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, we [cell biologists] are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite read more

Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, we [cell biologists] are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite symmetry, dramas of violence and death, mobility, self-sacrifice and, yes, rococo sex.

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In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

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If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very read more

If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.

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When the lay public rallies round to an idea that is denounced by distinguished by elderly scientists and supports the read more

When the lay public rallies round to an idea that is denounced by distinguished by elderly scientists and supports the idea with great fervour and emotion, the distinguished but elderly scientests are then, after all, right. -Isaac Asimov.

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