Linux Science

Elegance and truth are inversely related.
                -- Becker's Razor

Elliptic paraboloids for sale.

Entropy isn't what it used to be.

Entropy requires no maintenance.
                -- Markoff Chaney

Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which
otherwise require harder thinking.
                -- Jerome Lettvin

Eureka!
                -- Archimedes

Every little picofarad has a nanohenry all its own.
                -- Don Vonada

Every nonzero finite dimensional inner product space has an orthonormal basis.

It makes sense, when you don't think about it.

Every paper published in a respectable journal should have a preface by
the author stating why he is publishing the article, and what value he
sees in it.  I have no hope that this practice will ever be adopted.
                -- Morris Kline

Everyone knows that dragons don't exist.  But while this simplistic
formulation may satisfy the layman, it does not suffice for the scientific
mind.  The School of Higher Neantical Nillity is in fact wholly unconcerned
with what does exist.  Indeed, the banality of existence has been
so amply demonstrated, there is no need for us to discuss it any further
here.  The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically,
discovered three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical,
and the purely hypothetical.  They were all, one might say, nonexistent,
but each nonexisted in an entirely different way ...
                -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"