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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 19, 2026
I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere.
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If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
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Vannevar Bush (1890 - 1974)  
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The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
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Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)  
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You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
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Scott Adams (1957 - ), The Dilbert Future  
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