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What happens depends on our way of observing it or on the fact that we observe it.: Werner Heisenberg
A reasonable probability is the only certainty.: E.W. Howe
Everybody's got plans...until they get hit.: Mike Tyson, heavyweight champ, on "plans" released by Tyrell Biggs' camp on how they would defeat the champ
For every living creature that succeeds in getting a footing in life there are thousands or millions that perish. There is an enormous random scattering for every seed that comes to life. This does not remind us of intelligent human design. "If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence.": J.W.N. Sullivan
I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why programming-- or buying software-- on the basis of "lists of features" is a doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification, as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess.: Ted Nelson
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means....[A] machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legendary Chicago machine where the pigs go in alive and come out transformed into hams and sausages. No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.: Henri Poincare (1854 - 1912)
That all our knowledge begins with experience, there is indeed no doubt....but although our knowledge originates WITH experience, it does not all arise OUT OF experience.: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you.: Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC)
The most merciful thing in the world . . . is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.: H.P. Lovecraft
Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.: R.Z. Sheppard, book critic

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