Linux Science

"If value corrupts then absolute value corrupts absolutely."

If you analyse anything, you destroy it.
                -- Arthur Miller

If you are smart enough to know that you're not smart enough to be an
Engineer, then you're in Business.

If you can't understand it, it is intuitively obvious.

If you haven't enjoyed the material in the last few lectures then a career
in chartered accountancy beckons.
                -- Advice from the lecturer in the middle of the Stochastic
                   Systems course.

If you push the "extra ice" button on the soft drink vending machine, you won't
get any ice.  If you push the "no ice" button, you'll get ice, but no cup.

        If you rap your knuckles against a window jamb or door, if you
brush your leg against a bed or desk, if you catch your foot in a curled-
up corner of a rug, or strike a toe against a desk or chair, go back and
repeat the sequence.
        You will find yourself surprised how far off course you were to
hit that window jamb, that door, that chair.  Get back on course and do it
again.  How can you pilot a spacecraft if you can't find your way around
your own apartment?
                -- William S. Burroughs

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from
many it's research.
                -- Wilson Mizner

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
                -- Albert Einstein