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Linux Science:  86 of 622

Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.
                -- Mickey Mouse
 
Linux Science:  87 of 622

Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as
artificial flowers have to flowers.
                -- David Parnas
 
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"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
 
Linux Science:  89 of 622

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
                -- Albert Einstein
 
Linux Science:  90 of 622

As you will see, I told them, in no uncertain terms, to see Figure one.
                -- Dave "First Strike" Pare
 
Linux Science:  91 of 622

Ask five economists and you'll get five different explanations (six if
one went to Harvard).
                -- Edgar R. Fiedler
 
Linux Science:  92 of 622

At any given moment, an arrow must be either where it is or where it is
not.  But obviously it cannot be where it is not.  And if it is where
it is, that is equivalent to saying that it is at rest.
                -- Zeno's paradox of the moving (still?) arrow
 
Linux Science:  93 of 622

At the heart of science is an essential tension between two seemingly
contradictory attitudes -- an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre
or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny
of all ideas, old and new.  This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep
nonsense.  Of course, scientists make mistakes in trying to understand the
world, but there is a built-in error-correcting mechanism:  The collective
enterprise of creative thinking and skeptical thinking together keeps the
field on track.
                -- Carl Sagan, "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection"
 
Linux Science:  94 of 622

Back in the early 60's, touch tone phones only had 10 buttons.  Some
military versions had 16, while the 12 button jobs were used only by people
who had "diva" (digital inquiry, voice answerback) systems -- mainly banks.
Since in those days, only Western Electric  made "data sets" (modems) the
problems of terminology were all Bell System.  We used to struggle with
written descriptions of dial pads that were unfamiliar to most people
(most phones were rotary then.)  Partly in jest, some AT&T engineering
types (there was no marketing in the good old days, which is why they were
the good old days) made up the term "octalthorpe" (note spelling) to denote
the "pound sign."  Presumably because it has 8 points sticking out.  It
never really caught on.
 
Linux Science:  95 of 622

Base 8 is just like base 10, if you are missing two fingers.
                -- Tom Lehrer
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