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• Work expands to fill the time available. -- Cyril Northcote Parkinson, "The Economist", 1955
• The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense -- Picasso
• NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music.
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• Boredom in the Kernel.
• I'd like it all automated.
• Every nonzero finite dimensional inner product space has an orthonormal basis.
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