Linux Science

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

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

As you will see, I told them, in no uncertain terms, to see Figure one.
                -- Dave "First Strike" Pare