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#10640 |  | We warn the reader in advance that the proof presented here depends on a clever but highly unmotivated trick. -- Howard Anton, "Elementary Linear Algebra"
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#10641 |  | We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction. -- S.J. Gould
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#10642 |  | We will have solar energy as soon as the utility companies solve one technical problem -- how to run a sunbeam through a meter.
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#10643 |  | We've sent a man to the moon, and that's 29,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive that in a week, but for some reason nobody's ever done it. -- Andy Rooney
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#10644 |  | Weinberg, as a young grocery clerk, advised the grocery manager to get rid of rutabagas which nobody ever bought. He did so. "Well, kid, that was a great idea," said the manager. Then he paused and asked the killer question, "NOW what's the least popular vegetable?"
Law: Once you eliminate your #1 problem, #2 gets a promotion. -- Gerald Weinberg, "The Secrets of Consulting"
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#10645 |  | Wernher von Braun settled for a V-2 when he coulda had a V-8.
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#10646 |  | "What I've done, of course, is total garbage." -- R. Willard, Pure Math 430a
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#10647 |  | What is algebra, exactly? Is it one of those three-cornered things? -- J.M. Barrie
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#10648 |  | What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. -- Thomas Hewitt Key, 1799-1875
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#10649 |  | What is now proved was once only imagin'd. -- William Blake
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