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| | #10400 | | Nondeterminism means never having to say you are wrong.
| | | #10401 | | Nonsense. Space is blue and birds fly through it.
-- Heisenberg
| | | #10402 | | Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the
Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in
their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the
moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter -- for they had a machine, a
dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every respect.
And they lived with it, and on it, and under it, and inside it, for it
was all they had -- first they saved up all their atoms, then they put
them all together, and if one didn't fit, why they chipped at it a bit,
and everything was just fine ...
-- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"
| | | #10403 | | Nothing is faster than the speed of light ...
To prove this to yourself, try opening the refrigerator door before the
light comes on.
| | | #10404 | | Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.
She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
| | | #10405 | | Nuclear powered vacuuum cleaners will probably be a reality within 10 years.
-- Alex Lewyt (President of the Lewyt Corporation,
manufacturers of vacuum cleaners), quoted in The New York
Times, June 10, 1955.
| | | #10406 | | Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.
| | | #10407 | | "Obviously, a major malfunction has occurred."
-- Steve Nesbitt, voice of Mission Control, January 28,
1986, as the shuttle Challenger exploded within view
of the grandstands.
| | | #10408 | | Of course you can't flap your arms and fly to the moon. After a while you'd
run out of air to push against.
| | | #10409 | | Often statistics are used as a drunken man uses lampposts -- for support
rather than illumination.
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