Linux Science

Research is the best place to be: you work your buns off, and if it works
you're a hero; if it doesn't, well -- nobody else has done it yet either,
so you're still a valiant nerd.

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and think what nobody
else has thought.

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
                -- Wernher von Braun

Review Questions

(1) If Nerd on the planet Nutley starts out in his spaceship at 20 KPH,
    and his speed doubles every 3.2 seconds, how long will it be before
    he exceeds the speed of light?  How long will it be before the
    Galactic Patrol picks up the pieces of his spaceship?

(2) If Roger Rowdy wrecks his car every week, and each week he breaks
    twice as many bones as before, how long will it be before he breaks
    every bone in his body?  How long will it be before they cut off
    his insurance?  Where does he get a new car every week?

(3) If Johnson drinks one beer the first hour (slow start), four beers
    the next hour, nine beers the next, etc., and stacks the cans in a
    pyramid, how soon will Johnson's pyramid be larger than King
    Tut's?  When will it fall on him?  Will he notice?

Round Numbers are always false.
                -- Samuel Johnson

Saliva causes cancer, but only if swallowed in small amounts over a long
period of time.
                -- George Carlin

Science and religion are in full accord but science and faith are in complete
discord.

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones.  But a collection
of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
                -- Jules Henri Poincar'e

Science is what happens when preconception meets verification.

Science may someday discover what faith has always known.