Linux Science

We warn the reader in advance that the proof presented here depends on a
clever but highly unmotivated trick.
                -- Howard Anton, "Elementary Linear Algebra"

We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to
brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction.
                -- S.J. Gould

We will have solar energy as soon as the utility companies solve one technical
problem -- how to run a sunbeam through a meter.

We've sent a man to the moon, and that's 29,000 miles away.  The center
of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away.  You could drive that in a week,
but for some reason nobody's ever done it.
                -- Andy Rooney

Weinberg, as a young grocery clerk, advised the grocery manager to get
rid of rutabagas which nobody every bought.  He did so. "Well, kid, that
was a great idea," said the manager. Then he paused and asked the killer
question, "NOW what's the least popular vegetable?"

Law: Once you eliminate your #1 problem, #2 gets a promotion.
        -- Gerald Weinberg, "The Secrets of Consulting"

Wernher von Braun settled for a V-2 when he coulda had a V-8.

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

What is algebra, exactly?  Is it one of those three-cornered things?
                -- J.M. Barrie

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

What is now proved was once only imagin'd.
                -- William Blake