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• We laugh at the Indian philosopher, who to account for the support of the earth, contrived the hypothesis of a huge elephant, and to support the elephant, a huge tortoise.
  If we will candidly confess the truth, we know as little of the operation of the nerves, as he did of the manner in which the earth is supported...
• Forecast, n: A prediction of the future, based on the past, for which the forecaster demands payment in the present.
• A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn ou
  after innumerable punching, an infinite series of incomprehensive answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures taken from inconclusive documents and carried out on instruments of problematical accuracy by persons of dubious reliability and questionable mentality for the avowed purpose of annoying and confounding a hopelessly defenseless department that was unfortunate enough to ask for the information in the first place....
• A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn ou
  after innumerable punching, an infinite series of incomprehensible answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures taken from inconclusive documents and carried out on instruments of problematical accuracy by persons of dubious reliability and questionable mentality for the avowed purpose of annoying and confounding a hopelessly defenseless department that was unfortunate enough to ask for the information in the first place....
• A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn ou
  after innumerable punching, an infinite series of incomprehensive answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures taken from inconclusive documents and carried out on instruments of problematical accuracy by persons of dubious reliability and questionable mentality for the avowed purpose of annoying and confounding a hopelessly defenseless department that was unfortunate enough to ask for the information in the first place....
• By the time a social science theory is formulated in such a way that it can be tested, changing circumstances have already made it obsolete.
  -- Professor Charles P. Issawi...