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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.
We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.
In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the 3.6 million read more
In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the 3.6 million year old fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western.
The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and human stupidity.
The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and human stupidity.
An idea is the only level which moves the world.
An idea is the only level which moves the world.
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power read more
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back read more
Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
When the lay public rallies round to an idea that is denounced by distinguished by elderly scientists and supports the read more
When the lay public rallies round to an idea that is denounced by distinguished by elderly scientists and supports the idea with great fervour and emotion, the distinguished but elderly scientests are then, after all, right. -Isaac Asimov.
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source read more
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.
An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
