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- It's not that I don't enjoy it, but it's kind of like a trip to Disneyland. You get so excited about a ride on the Matterhorn, and then when it's over, you realize you wasted all that time in line for a minute and a half upside down and the chance to throw up.
- Murphy Brown, on "The Sex Thing"
- I'm a solipsist and, I have to say, I'm surprised there aren't more of us.
- from a letter to Bertrand Russell
- I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
- This is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's [IBM's] Galaxy-wide success is founded...their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws.
- TH Nelson, Computer Lib., 1988, London: Penguin.
- The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
- Muriel Rukeyser
- I may not agree with what you say, but I'll fight to the death for your right to die in a fire of suspicious origin
- author unknown
- All dimensions are critical dimensions, otherwise why are they there?
- Russ Zandbergen
- Beauty is the first test; there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
- G.H. Hardy, in _A Mathematician's Apology_
- 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"
- 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
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