Linux Science

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.  In practice,
there is.

In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain.
                -- Pliny the Elder

        "In this replacement Earth we're building they've given me Africa
to do and of course I'm doing it with all fjords again because I happen to
like them, and I'm old-fashioned enough to think that they give a lovely
baroque feel to a continent.  And they tell me it's not equatorial enough.
Equatorial!"  He gave a hollow laugh.  "What does it matter?  Science has
achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than
right any day."
        "And are you?"
        "No.  That's where it all falls down, of course."
        "Pity," said Arthur with sympathy.  "It sounded like quite a good
life-style otherwise."
                -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

Information is the inverse of entropy.

Interchangeable parts won't.

Invest in physics -- own a piece of Dirac!

"Irrationality is the square root of all evil"
                -- Douglas Hofstadter

Is knowledge knowable?  If not, how do we know that?

Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction
listen to weather forecasts and economists?
                -- Kelvin Throop III

Isn't it strange that the same people that laugh at gypsy fortune
tellers take economists seriously?