Linux Science

The Universe is populated by stable things.
                -- Richard Dawkins

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
                -- Sagan

The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four
forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and
bloody-mindedness.
                -- Terry Pratchett, "The Light Fantastic"

The University of California Statistics Department; where mean is normal,
and deviation standard.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be
done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
                -- E. Hubbard

The Wright Bothers weren't the first to fly.  They were just the first
not to crash.

Theory is gray, but the golden tree of life is green.
                -- Goethe

There *is* no such thing as a civil engineer.

There are no data that cannot be plotted on a straight line if the axis
are chosen correctly.

"There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers.
While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain."
                -- Baron Rothschild, ca. 1800