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- Equation (1.2-9) is a second order, nonlinear, vector, differential equation which has defied solution in its present form. It is here therefore we depart from the realities of nature to make some simplifying assumptions...
- Bate, Mueller & White, 1971, "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics"
- When you're not looking at it, this sentence is in Spanish.
- Douglas R. Hofstadter, from Go"del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
- The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.
- Rita Mae Brown
- Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
- Douglas R. Hofstadter, from Go"del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
- ...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- It's said that if you can't say something good about a dead person, don't say it. Well, I consider him dead.
- Thurgood Marshall (1908 - 1993), (Former Chief Justice), on President George Bush
- Tipper and Al came to a show the last time we were in Washington. They're nice people, a nice family. We made every effort not to frighten them.
- Jerry Garcia, on rumors the Grateful Dead may play at the Inaugural. Boston Globe, Dec 12,1992.
- Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; It is a tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing."
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act V, Scene V (MacBeth)
- Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.
- Franklin P. Jones
- Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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