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| | #2611 | | "And they told us, what they wanted...
Was a sound that could kill some-one, from a distance." -- Kate Bush
| | | #2612 | | "In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not
there if you want to keep writing good code." -- Karl Lehenbauer
| | | #2613 | | Badges? We don't need no stinking badges.
| | | #2614 | | I can't drive 55.
I'm looking forward to not being able to drive 65, either.
| | | #2615 | | Thank God a million billion times you live in Texas.
| | | #2616 | | "Can you program?" "Well, I'm literate, if that's what you mean!"
| | | #2617 | | No user-servicable parts inside. Refer to qualified service personnel.
| | | #2618 | | At the heart of science is an essential tension between two seemingly
contradictory attitudes -- an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre
or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny
of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep
nonsense. Of course, scientists make mistakes in trying to understand the
world, but there is a built-in error-correcting mechanism: The collective
enterprise of creative thinking and skeptical thinking together keeps the
field on track.
-- Carl Sagan, "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection," Parade, February 1, 1987
| | | #2619 | | One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled
long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no
longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured
us. it is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- that
we've been so credulous. (So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the
new bamboozles rise.)
-- Carl Sagan, "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection," Parade, February 1, 1987
| | | #2620 | | Regarding astral projection, Woody Allen once wrote, "This is not a bad way
to travel, although there is usually a half-hour wait for luggage."
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