So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.
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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.
Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
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appreciates how difficult it was.
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
appreciates how difficult it was.
The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.
The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.
To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
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Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three hours of usenet.
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't.".
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't.".
...there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. read more
...there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the difference is that once you've made the intuitive leap you have to justify it by filling in the intermediate steps. In my case, it often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find that they don't work, so I have to give it up.
