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About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain read more
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.
I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.
All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -E. Rutherford.
All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -E. Rutherford.
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come read more
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out read more
It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says read more
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one read more
If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.
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.
