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Former Member
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The best way to predict reality, is to know exactly what you DON'T want"
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He who laughs first is no raconteur
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If you are a graduate student working on string theory, then the field
will be dead by the time you get your Ph.D.; Even worse, if you start over with a new thesis topic, the new field will also be dead by the time you get your Ph.D. |
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If it looks good,
And it taste good, And it feels good, There has got to be something wrong some where, So be careful. |
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Whatever looks, feels, tastes and sounds good, is either sinful, illegal or fattening.
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If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
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In an instrument or device characterized by a number of plus-or-minus
errors, the total error will be the sum of all the errors adding in the same direction |
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If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.” This is a principle of defensive design, cited here because it is usually given in mutant forms less descriptive of the challenges of design for lusers. For example, you don't make a two-pin plug symmetrical and then label it “THIS WAY UP”; if it matters which way it is plugged in, then you make the design asymmetrical
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To steal information from a person is called plagiarism. To steal information from the enemy is called gathering intelligence.
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It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden
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