Linux Science

Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts
which are unobtainable, and three parts which are still under development.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
                -- Arthur C. Clarke

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human.  At best he
is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not
make messes in the house.
                -- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"

Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time
as the strawberries, knows nothing about grapes.
                -- Philippus Paracelsus

"Anything created must necessarily be inferior to the essence of the creator."
                -- Claude Shouse

"Einstein's mother must have been one heck of a physicist."
                -- Joseph C. Wang

Anything cut to length will be too short.

Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.
                -- Mickey Mouse

Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as
artificial flowers have to flowers.
                -- David Parnas

"As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty,
and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life -- so I became a
scientist.  This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls."
                -- Matt Cartmill