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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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