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Two men are in a hot-air balloon.  Soon, they find themselves lost in a
canyon somewhere.  One of the three men says, "I've got an idea.  We can
call for help in this canyon and the echo will carry our voices to the
end of the canyon.  Someone's bound to hear us by then!"
        So he leans over the basket and screams out, "Helllloooooo!  Where
are we?"  (They hear the echo several times).
        Fifteen minutes later, they hear this echoing voice: "Helllloooooo!
You're lost!"
        The shouter comments, "That must have been a mathematician."
        Puzzled, his friend asks, "Why do you say that?"
        "For three reasons.  First, he took a long time to answer, second,
he was absolutely correct, and, third, his answer was absolutely useless."

Two percent of zero is almost nothing.

Two wrights don't make a rong, they make an airplane.  Or bicycles.

UFOs are for real: the Air Force doesn't exist.

Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem
in relation to a bigger problem.
                -- P.D. Ouspensky

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two,
opulence is when you have three -- and paradise is when you have none.
                -- Doug Larson

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy.  The question which divides us is
whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.  My own feeling
is that it is not crazy enough.
                -- Niels Bohr

We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his
own facts.
                -- Patrick Moynihan

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We can defeat gravity.  The problem is the paperwork involved.