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• When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books.
  You will be reading meanings. Harold Geneen, from Managing...
• Another writer again agreed with all my generalities, but said that as an inveterate skeptic I have closed my mind to the truth.
  Most notably I have ignored the evidence for an Earth that is six thousand years old....
• You see it's like a portmanteau--there are two meanings packed up into one word.
  -- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Gla...
• I'm often asked the question, "Do you think there is extraterrestrial intelligence?
  I give the standard arguments -- there are a lot of places out there, and use the word *billions*, and so on....
• 1. Never draw what you can copy. 2. Never copy what you can trace.
  3. Never trace what you can cut out and paste down. -- Wallace Wood's Rule of Drawing...
• cycle: 1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper describes himself as a "cycle junkie").
  One can describe an instruction as taking so many `clock cycles'....
• cycle 1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper described himself as a "cycle junkie").
  One can describe an instruction as taking so many `clock cycles'....
• Think much, speak little, and write less. However, if you are going to write
  it is well to write what you think people think you think rather than what you think, because people have no idea what you think, and likely as not, are uninterested....
• I can read your mind, and you should be ashamed of yourself.