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This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The
spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men
who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly.
-- Lancelot Hogben, Science for the Citizen, 1938
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Freebsd Fortunes 6: 1632 of 2171 |
This is supposed to be a happy occasion.
Let's not BICKER and ARGUE over who killed who!
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Freebsd Fortunes 6: 1633 of 2171 |
This is the Baron. Angel Martin tells me you buy information. Ok,
meet me at one a.m. behind the bus depot, bring five-hundred dollars
and come alone. I'm serious!
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Freebsd Fortunes 6: 1634 of 2171 |
This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future,
which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
-- Arthur Clarke
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Freebsd Fortunes 6: 1635 of 2171 |
This is the first numerical problem I ever did. It demonstrates the
power of computers:
Enter lots of data on calorie & nutritive content of foods. Instruct the
thing to maximize a function describing nutritive content, with a minimum
level of each component, for fixed caloric content. The results are that
one should eat each day:
1/2 chicken
1 egg
1 glass of skim milk
27 heads of lettuce.
-- Rev. Adrian Melott
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Freebsd Fortunes 6: 1636 of 2171 |
This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.
-- Winston Churchill
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Freebsd Fortunes 6: 1637 of 2171 |
This is the theory that Jack built.
This is the flaw that lay in the theory that Jack built.
This is the palpable verbal haze that hid the flaw that lay in...
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Freebsd Fortunes 6: 1638 of 2171 |
This is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
And now you know why.
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Freebsd Fortunes 6: 1639 of 2171 |
This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends,
Not with a bang but with a whimper.
-- T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men"
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Freebsd Fortunes 6: 1640 of 2171 |
This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.
-- Wolfgang Pauli, on a colleague's paper
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