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• THEORY: System of ideas meant to explain something, chosen with a view to originality, controversialism, incomprehensibility, and how good it will look in print.
• Originality does not mean thinking something that was never thought before
  it means putting old ideas together in new ways....
• A good imitation is the most perfect originality. -- Voltaire
• There was once a programmer who was attached to the court of the warlord of Wu.
  The warlord asked the programmer: "Which is easier to desig...
• There was once a programmer who was attached to the court of the warlord Wu.
  The warlord asked the programmer: "Which is easier to desig...
• The only way to have real success in science, the field I'm familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without regard to the way you feel it should be.
  If you have a theory, you must try to explain what's good and what's bad about it equally....
• All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. -- John Stuart Mill
• The notion of ideas as infectious diseases is one to which most authoritarian religions and governments subscribe, and they hold massive "hygienic" burnings of the "viral DNA" behind the ideas.
  Promulgators of these "diseased" ideas are called "carriers of spiritual impurity" (to use one phrase now popular in China) and attempts are made to prevent the spread of these diseases....
• How was Pope John Paul chosen? They took a poll.