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What is a magician but a practicing theorist?
                -- Obi-Wan Kenobi

What is mind?  No matter.
What is matter?  Never mind.
                -- Thomas Hewitt Key, 1799-1875

What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern
computer?  It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest
and the establishment of a Hilton on its peak.

"What is the Nature of God?"

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"I've just GOT to start labeling my software..."
                -- Bloom County

"What is the robbing of a bank compared to the FOUNDING of a bank?"
                -- Bertold Brecht

"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out,
which is the exact opposite."
                -- Bertrand Russell, "Skeptical_Essays", 1928

What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do.

"What I've done, of course, is total garbage."
                -- R. Willard, Pure Math 430a

What makes the universe so hard to comprehend is that there's nothing
to compare it with.

What publishers are looking for these days isn't radical feminism.
It's corporate feminism -- a brand of feminism designed to sell books
and magazines, three-piece suits, airline tickets, Scotch, cigarettes
and, most important, corporate America's message, which runs: "Yes,
women were discriminated against in the past, but that unfortunate
mistake has been remedied; now every woman can attain wealth, prestige
and power by dint of individual rather than collective effort."
                -- Susan Gordon