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| #10570 | | The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four
forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and
bloody-mindedness.
-- Terry Pratchett, "The Light Fantastic"
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| #10571 | | The University of California Statistics Department; where mean is normal,
and deviation standard.
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| #10572 | | The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be
done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
-- E. Hubbard
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| #10573 | | The Wright Bothers weren't the first to fly. They were just the first
not to crash.
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| #10574 | | Theory is gray, but the golden tree of life is green.
-- Goethe
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| #10575 | | There *__is* no such thing as a civil engineer.
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| #10576 | | There are no data that cannot be plotted on a straight line if the axis
are chosen correctly.
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| #10577 | | "There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers.
While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain."
-- Baron Rothschild, ca. 1800
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| #10578 | | There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the
changes on its corollaries; that's philosophy. Two: Record many facts.
Try to find a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that's
science. Three: Be aware that you live in a malevolent Universe controlled
by Murphy's Law, sometimes offset by Brewster's Factor; that's engineering.
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| #10579 | | There are two kinds of solar-heat systems: "passive" systems collect the
sunlight that hits your home, and "active" systems collect the sunlight that
hits your neighbors' homes, too.
-- Dave Barry, "Postpetroleum Guzzler"
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