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• To rebel against a powerful political, economic, religious, or social estab- lishment is very dangerous and very few people do it, except, perhaps, as part of a mob.
  To rebel against the scientific establishment, however, is the easiest thing in the world, and anyone can do it and feel enormously brave, without risking as much as a hangnail....
• According to convention there is a sweet and a bitter, a hot and a cold, and according to convention, there is an order.
  In truth, there are atoms and a void. -- Democritus, 400 B.C....
• brute force adj. Describes a primitive programming style
  one in which the programmer relies on the computer's processing power instead of using his or her own intelligence to simplify the problem, often ignoring problems of scale and applying naive methods suited to small problems directly to large ones....
• Verily and forsooth, replied Goodgulf darkly. In the past year strange and fearful wonders I have seen.
  Fields sown with barley reap crabgrass and fungus, and even small gardens reject their artichoke hearts....
• Verily and forsooth," replied Goodgulf darkly. "In the past year strange and fearful wonders I have seen.
  Fields sown with barley reap crabgrass and fungus, and even small gardens reject their artichoke hearts....
• Verily, when the day of judgment comes, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.
  -- Thomas A. Kempi...
• A retired dentist who loves to fish. "Open wide," he mutters to the unseen fish as he waits for a tug on the line.
  Now bite down. This may sting just a little bit....