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- The primary purpose of the Data statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable Pi can be given that value with a Data statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.
- Fortran manual for Xerox Computers
- This is why God invented network television.
- Ted Harbert, pres. of ABC Entertainment, opining on Oprah Winfrey's interview of Michael Jackson.
- The Baptists believe in The Right to Life before you're born. They also believe in Life After Death, but that is a privilege and you have to earn it by spending the interim in guilt-ridden misery. At an early age I decided that living a life of pious misery in the hope of going to heaven when it's over is a lot like keeping your eyes shut all through a movie in the hope of getting your money back at the end.
- A. Whitney Brown, "The Big Picture"
- ...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line."
- Tom Robbins (1936 - ), _Skinny Legs and All_, 1990, p. 305.
- The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
- Sir Richard F. Burton
- I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve.
- Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944)
- I want to know the truth, however perverted that may sound.
- Stephen Wolfram
- I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors--they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident.
- Zambendorf, _Code of the Lifemaker_ by James P. Hogan
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